The Popular Party will continue “to the last consequences” with his offensive against the appointment of Teresa Ribera as Vice President and Commissioner for Competition of the new European Commission, according to sources from the team closest to Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The popular Not only are they still trying to get the European PP to veto Ribera, but they have decided that, in the event that the college of commissioners proposed by Úrsula von der Leyen overcomes the crossed vetoes and goes ahead, Its delegation in the European Parliament will vote against the new European government as a whole.
The PP has never approved Von der Leyen’s proposal – a member of the popular Europeans—to promote Ribera in the new Commission, but they have found in the catastrophe caused by DANA in Valencia a reason to try to stop his appointment in extremis or, where appropriate, muddy it.
Although members of the national leadership of the PP assure this newspaper that “it is most likely” that the still vice president of the Government will be elected this week, those of Feijóo do not consider the battle lost. Sources from Genoa assure that they are still “trying” to convince the EPP that Ribera cannot accept the position of commissioner so that they reject her. For her part, Von der Leyen is trying to get support for her new government to begin work on December 1.
For the moment, the EPP, with Manfred Weber at the head – a key player due to his enmity with the president of the Commission, German like him, and his postulates that are furthest from social democracy – has agreed to enter Feijóo’s game by setting conditions to support Ribera. They want a commitment that she will resign if she is prosecuted by the DANA management, as announced last week The World.
The third vice president of the Government is one of the problematic names in the block of commissioners proposed by Von der Leyen, but not the only one. The community executive is supported by an alliance between conservatives, liberals and social democrats and the latter refused to support Raffaele Fittoappointed by the Italian prime minister, the far-right Giorgia Meloni, and Hungarian Olivér Varhelyi, an ally of Viktor Orbán.
However, this Monday, as published elDiario.esthe European socialists have made a move and They have opened up to voting in favor of the Italian far-right in exchange for Ribera’s appointment being unblocked. “The grandiloquence and the sanitary cordons last as long as it takes for the PSOE to need the commissioners of the extreme right in exchange for them voting for the candidate commissioner Teresa Ribera,” Feijóo said this Monday during his speech at the National Board of Directors of the PP.
The PSOE: “The decision is not whether Ribera or Fitto”
“The European Union cannot afford a myopic view in the delicate geopolitical context in which it finds itself. The decision that must be made is not ‘if Ribera or if Fitto’: the strategic decision is to reach a consensus that protects Europe in a especially dangerous international scenario,” say PSOE sources in Brussels, who view Donald Trump’s return to the White House with concern and, like Von der Leyen, want the new Commission to get up and running as soon as possible.
For its part, Génova is satisfied that, although they do not finally manage to stop Ribera’s appointment, they will have managed, they believe, to dismantle Pedro Sánchez’s speech about his pacts with the extreme right.
Von der Leyen “knows well” her position
Sources from the national leadership of the PP reject criticism for dragging national problems to Brussels and They assure that EPP MEPs “understand” their reasons. “When you explain to them what has happened, that she is the Minister of Transition and that there have been two hundred deaths…they understand it,” Feijóo’s team emphasizes.
Regarding Von der Leyen, from Genoa they assure that she “knows well” her position, but it is evident that it is with Weber that Feijóo has forged a strong alliance. The president of the PP is in constant contact with the leader of the popular Europeans, in turn confronted with the president of the Commission.
“We don’t know what will happen, but we are going to try and ultimately we are willing to vote against Von der Leyen’s government,” say sources from Feijóo’s leadership.
Ribera, and five other vice presidential candidates, are waiting to know the results of their evaluation – they were examined last week – and there is still no date for it. This Wednesday the conference of presidents will be held in the European Parliament and it will be seen if the leaders of European families agree and lift the crossed vetoes. That same day, Ribera will appear in Congress to explain his management of DANA as demanded by the PPE urged by Feijóo’s people.
The negotiations to unblock the situation are taking place at the highest level and the final objective is for the European Parliament to approve the new Commission as a whole in the plenary session on September 27.
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