The Popular Party manages to convince its group in the European Parliament, which takes a step forward and subordinates its support to the third vice-president of the government and Spanish candidate for vice-president of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, on the condition that She undertakes to resign if she is prosecuted for her management of DANA, which left more than 200 dead in the east and south of the country, most of them in Valencia. For days, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have been maneuvering to avoid the appointment of the Minister of Ecological Transition as number two in the community executive. The EPP now assumes the discourse of the Spanish “popular”, which demands that Sánchez withdraw the candidacy of Ribera, whom he accuses of inaction, to propose an alternative. PP sources point to the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas.
The leader of the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has already asked Ribera, during her hearing, to clarify whether she would resign from her position as head of the Community Executive if she found herself “judicially involved”. “I am sure that history, and perhaps also the judges, will judge her for her inaction and her incompetence,” underlined the “popular” MEP, who criticized her for having chosen to remain “hidden” from Brussels after the disaster instead of appearing there. Congress to explain the situation.
The spokesperson for the European People’s Party, Germany’s Markus Ferber, also disgraced Ribera for having spoken words of solidarity with the victims in the European Parliament while he avoids appearing before the Spanishreproaches which were also joined by other “popular” Europeans such as the Italian Fulvio Martusciello or the French François-Xavier Bellamy, among 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 There was parliamentary activity last week in Spain and it took place. be in Brussels to appear before the European Parliament.
All this after the main political groups of the European Parliament agreed to postpone the verdicts of the six candidates for vice-presidents of the next community executive of the German Ursula von der Leyen, including Ribera, with the aim of forcing a bloc decision. so that none of those designated is approved until the others are approved.
Amid a struggle between political families, the leaders of the so-called “grand coalition” on which Von der Leyen’s approval rests, that formed by the EPP, the S&D and the liberals (RE), surrendered at party headquarters. Commission to face 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 his vice-presidents.
