Sánchez defends Ribera as “the best” and dissociates his appointment as commissioner from the Italian Fitto

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, defended from Brazil, where he held a press conference this Tuesday after the G20 meeting, the candidacy of Therese Ribera as vice-president and competition commissioner of the next European Commission, which the European People’s Party calls into question due to its management at the Dana of Valencia, an issue for which the third vice-president will offer explanations this Wednesday in Congress and the Senate.

Sánchez said that Ribera is ““one of the best, if not the best” when it comes to subjects like the ecological transition. And he assured that the negotiation of the next community executive of the German conservative Ursula von der Leyen fulfilled two objectives: the first was to include the three big political families of the continent, social democrats, conservatives and liberals, and that it It was a pact, he said, “moderate, targeted and pro-European”; The second is that the best profiles were chosen during the establishment of the new college of commissioners.

Asked whether, in order to save Ribera’s now contested nomination, he would be prepared to order PSOE MPs to vote for the Italian Prime Minister’s candidate, Giorgia Meloni, Raffaele Fitocompletely dissociated it from the Ribera appointment agreement, since, he explained, “each country has the right to a commissioner.”