The Spanish government is negotiating and lobbying at the G20 so that the nomination of Teresa Ribera As European Vice-President, get ahead. Waiting for the Minister of Ecological Transition present this Wednesday at the Congress of Deputies To explain its management of DANA, the PP continues to put pressure to try to block his appointment. The PSOE, for its part, is maneuvering to unblock it.
This scenario occurs after the People’s Party waged an all-out war to veto the socialist as vice-presidential candidate for the Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and head of the Competition portfolio at the EC. Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo seek to make the minister co-responsible for the management of DANA to divert attention from the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón.
This rejection generated a clash between the two main political families in Brussels, “popular” and social-democrat. However, sources in Genoa confirmed to laSexta that, “indeed”, the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) contacted Manfred Weber this Saturday to inform him that I would support all commissioners in waitingincluding the one proposed by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party, if the European People’s Party (EPP) supports Ribera.
Thus, this Monday, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, seeks to meet the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenwith whom he coincides at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, the way that allows unlock the nomination of Teresa Ribera as vice-president of the Commission.
Sánchez and Von der Leyen are participating in the G20 leaders’ meeting and this coincidence suggested that both could maintain contacts to address this issue.
There has been no official confirmation from the Government that this contact already existed from the first day of this summit, which will last until Tuesday.
But sources in the Executive indicated that the intention is for this unblocking to take place and, therefore, the government is talking, working and pushing for the new European Commission that Von der Leyen will chair and in which Teresa Ribera is expected holds the position of Vice-President of the Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition.
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