Sánchez tries to convince the parties of Meloni and Orban to support Ribera in exchange for the vote of the socialists to the “extreme right” commissioners, according to a source from the European Parliament at LaSexta. The President of the Government is said to be seeking support to obtain the appointment of the Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge as Vice-President of the Commission after the refusal of the European People’s Party to vote for it.
For the moment, there is no agreement for a new community government and PPE stays in place: There will be no news until Ribera gives his explanations to Congress. Ester Muñoz will ask Ribera this Thursday if she would resign from her position as Vice President of the Commission if she were accused of her poor response to DANA and her lack of prevention of the floods that affected Castilla-La Mancha and the Valencian Community.
Sanchez analyzed the situation of the negotiations for the new Commission chaired by Ursula von der Leyen during the press conference she gave at the end of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. European Parliament groups are negotiating to find a solution, which could involve Social Democrats vote in favor of Meloni’s candidate for the Commission, Raffaelle Fito.
Sánchez recalled the pact concluded last summer by the three main European political families (social democrats, popular and liberal) for the community institutions and declared that Spain was the protagonist with the intention of reaching a pact pro-European, moderate and targeted. “In the formation of the College of Commissioners All countries have the right to elect a commissioner. “It is not me who chooses it, but the government of this country,” Sánchez justified.
According to him, this has been achieved and he defended that the best go to Europe, among those he cited “the best”, its vice-president and minister of ecological transition. From there and after discussing this subject at the G20 summit with the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, he asked that everyone comply with an agreement for which he declared that the negotiations were progressing and he hoped that they would bear fruit. soon because Spain and Europe need it.
