The EPP thus assumed the national discourse of popular The Spaniards, who have already expressed their criticism on Tuesday at the community level with regard to the management of Ribera, whom they accuse of inaction and of being more focused on the success of the examination before the European Parliament than on the relations with the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
The leader of the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrathas already asked Ribera during her hearing to clarify whether she would resign from her position as member of the Community Executive if she found herself “judicially implicated”. “I am sure that history, and perhaps also the judges, will judge her for her inaction and her incompetence,” underlined the MEP. popularwho disgraced him because after the disaster he chose to remain “hidden” in Brussels instead of appearing in Congress to explain the situation.
The EPP spokesperson in the examination, the German Markus Ferberthis disgraced Ribera for having spoken words of solidarity with the victims in the European Parliament when he had avoided appearing before the Spaniard, reproaches which were also joined by other “popular” Europeans such as the Italian. Fulvio Martusciello or in French François-Xavier Bellamyamong others.
Faced with these criticisms, the third vice-president of the government indicated that she would go to the Congress of Deputies “next week” to give explanations and maintained that this was not possible before because there is no had parliamentary activity last week in Spain and were expected to be in Brussels to appear before the European Parliament.
I ask the government to withdraw Ribera’s candidacy and propose another prestigious profile that garners the support of Spanish society.
Sánchez will be wrong because the European Commission cannot be the hiding place of a minister who owes a lot of explanations to the people. pic.twitter.com/IdNefX0ZQJ
– Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) November 13, 2024
All this after the main political groups in the European Parliament agreed to postpone the verdict of the six candidates for vice-presidents of the next community executive of the German government. Ursula von der Leyenincluding Ribera, with the aim of imposing a wholesale decision so that none of the nominees are approved until the others are approved.
In the heat of the struggle between political families, the leaders of the appeal grand coalition on which Von der Leyen’s approval is supported, the group formed by the EPP, the S&D and the Liberals (RE) went this Wednesday to the headquarters of the Commission to address the crisis with the head of the community executive .
Different sources tell Europa Press that there has been no progress but that the dialogue “remains open”, while the European Commission limits itself to insisting on the urgency of resolving the situation to ensure that the new College can enter into activity on December 1 and reaffirmed, through Von der Leyen’s spokesperson, that “nothing has changed” in the confidence that the German placed in Ribera by naming her as one of its vice-presidents.
