The president of the European PP, Manfed Webergathered its group this Wednesday and transferred the order to vote next week in favor of the new college of commissioners proposed by Ursula von der Leyenwith the socialist Therese Ribera Understood. This is what OKDIARIO learned from community sources on the day that Minister Pedro Sánchez, candidate for the post of Executive Vice-President of Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and Commissioner for Competition of the European Commission, appears at the Cortes Generales to provide explanations on its management. in the DANA crisis.
Thus, according to the community sources cited, we maintain the forecast that the plenary of the European Chamber vote next week to the entire College of Commissioners so that the new Community Executive is operational from November 1st.
“We hope it can start on December 1,” von der Leyen’s chief spokesman said last Thursday. Eric Mamerat a press conference in Brussels, when asked if he feared that the blocking of negotiations between political groups in the European Parliament would prevent compliance with this timetable.
For their part, the socialists accused the European People’s Party of “using the European project as a hostage for internal political purposes, even going so far as to undermine the stability of European institutions.” in the midst of a difficult geopolitical climate »they stressed from the S&D group after the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the United States.
From the PP of Alberto Nuñez Feijóosources from Genoa are already saying these days that their deputies are studying does not support the College of Commissioners at the plenary session of the European Parliament if Teresa Ribera remains part of the candidacy. For the new community executive to move forward, Von der Leyen’s proposal requires a simple majority, so it is possible that Spanish PP MEPs will ultimately vote against it.
Genoese sources have already admitted this Wednesday in the halls of Congress that there is “the possibility of voting only against” the College of Commissioners, with Ribera inside.
Furthermore, the Spanish PP had proposed that the assessment de Ribera and the five other vice-presidential candidates took place by secret ballot and at the ballot box in the corresponding committees before the overall vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament.
THE popular de Feijóo insisted this Wednesday in asking Ribera to commit to resigning from her post as European Commissioner, if she is ultimately elected, in case she is accused for his negligent actions in the DANA crisis, which left at least 219 dead in the province of Valencia.
