Ursula von der Leyen maintains her confidence in Teresa Ribera as vice president of Competition and Fair and Clean Transition, despite the questioning of her candidacy by the European People’s Party, which maintains its support for the candidate proposed by Pedro Sánchez in the air.
“The president has given her confidence to the group of candidates for the position of commissioners and the process for their confirmation is ongoing. Obviously nothing has changed with respect to this initial position,” responded the spokesperson for the European Commission, Eric Mamer, to the specific question of whether the German maintains its confidence in Ribera after the Valencia catastrophe.
The European People’s Party, which has aligned itself with the delegation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the point of putting at risk the majority that supports the community government, questioned Ribera’s management in DANA in a tense examination in which the Spanish delegation arrived to suggest that he would end up being held accountable for the tragedy.
“The president hopes and wishes that the new college of commissioners can begin its work as quickly as possible,” Mamer added about Von der Leyen’s intention for the College of Commissioners to obtain the confidence of the European Parliament after Tuesday’s frenetic day. .
The EPP intends to delay the decision on Ribera until he appears in Congress next week. However, sources from the group led by Manfred Weber do not even assume that they will finally support it – their Yeah is essential for the nomination to go ahead – and they make it a condition that the socialists support as vice president the candidate of the far-right Giorgia Meloni, Raffaele Fiito, and the far-right Hungarian commissioner.
The socialists consider that this condition violates the agreement reached in July to support Ursula von der Leyen in a second term. “Today the vote on the next College of Commissioners is at stake,” says the S&D in a statement after the group meeting they held: “The EPP leadership has broken the political agreement of the pro-European democratic forces in the European Parliament in for the sake of a destructive agenda of the Spanish Popular Party that attacks the designated executive vice president Teresa Ribera. The Spanish Popular Party is trying to make Teresa Ribera the scapegoat for her failure to manage the most catastrophic floods in recent European history, with more than 200 fatalities, and has taken the EPP hostage, taking the entire the European Union on the brink of the abyss in the most irresponsible way.”
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