Teresa Ribera will be vice-president of the European Commission despite the PP Alberto Nuñez Feijóowho went out of his way to derail his appointment by attempting to cover up the negligent management of the DANAof the Valencian president, the “popular” Carlos Mazón. His colleagues from the European People’s Party (EPP) they left him alone.
Its leader, Manfred Weber, ordered this Wednesday to vote for of the new College of Commissioners proposed by President Ursula Von der Leyen. In the afternoon, the agreement between “popular”, social democrats and liberals to give the green light to the new Community Executive with Ribera as vice-president.
Thus, the Spanish PP transferred a domestic conflict to Brussels, Ribera’s muddy hearing before the European Parliament, delaying the vote on his suitability – and with it, that of the rest of the candidates – and compromised the formation of the new Commission so that finally the appointment of the third vice president also takes place. But the “popular” Spaniards They are content to have prolonged the agony and internationalized the subject.
