Everything is closer to being resolved. The European People’s Party (EPP) will vote in favor of Teresa Ribera as the new vice president of the European Commissionwaiting for his appearance in Congress to conclude, and in this way the new community Executive will be unblocked, as long as the pieces fit together, with the social democrats voting in favor of Raffaele Fitto and the Hungarian Oliver Valeryhi, the other two pieces of the puzzle. In this way, the leader of the EPP in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, has ended up giving in amidst the opposition of the Spanish PP, which has confirmed its vote against.
That step has come, yes, surrounded by new critical messages from the PP. “I think that It is a bad appointment for Spain and a bad appointment for the European Commission“But that is the president’s responsibility, to continue insisting and persisting with a bad candidate,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo explained in Congress, pointing directly to Pedro Sánchez. Génova had been asking Moncloa for days to put another name on Von der Leyen’s table. “There are people who assume responsibilities, there are people who remodel their Government and there are people who do so. What makes those responsible is to try to promote them in the EU. They are two different ways of practicing politics,” he stated. while defending that the PP prefers “the policy that consists of trying to improve.”
The next step in that unlocking It will be a three-way agreement between popular, social democrats and liberals that allows not only the vote of the six vice-presidents of the Commission, but also to bring the community Executive ready to the plenary session next week in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, which has to give the green light to the entire College of Commissioners.
The conditions that the PPE placed on Ribera to give him its support consisted in a resignation if she ended up “indicted” for her management of DANAbut in the conservative ranks they assume, according to sources consulted, that the process would drag on for so long that at the end “she would no longer even be a commissioner.” From Genoa, on the other hand, they have been asking Sánchez for ten days to propose another candidate because they believe that the vice president’s role in the face of the catastrophe “invalidates” her from having a position in the EU.
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