The European PP makes its support for Ribera subject to his resignation if he is prosecuted by DANA

The Popular Party manages to convince its group in the European Parliament, which takes a step forward and makes its support for the third vice president of the Government and Spanish candidate for vice-presidency of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, subject to her committing to resign if She is prosecuted for her management of DANA, which has left more than 200 dead in the east and south of the country, most of them in Valencia. For days, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have maneuvered to avoid the appointment of the Minister of Ecological Transition as number two in the community Executive. Now the EPP assumes the discourse of the Spanish ‘popular’, who demand that Sánchez withdraw the candidacy of Ribera, whom they accuse of inaction, to propose an alternative. PP sources point to the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas.

The leader of the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, already asked Ribera during her hearing to clarify whether she will resign as head of the Community Executive if she finds herself “judicially involved.” “I am sure that history, and perhaps also the judges, will judge her for her inaction and incompetence,” stressed the ‘popular’ MEP, who criticized her for choosing to remain “hidden” in Brussels after the catastrophe. instead of appearing in Congress to explain the situation.

Also the spokesman for the European Popular Party, the German Markus Ferber, disgraced Ribera for having had words of solidarity with the victims in the European Parliament while avoids appearing before the Spanishreproaches that were also joined by other ‘popular’ Europeans such as the Italian Fulvio Martusciello or the French François-Xavier Bellamy, among others.

Faced with these criticisms, the third vice president of the Government reported that she will go to the Congress of Deputies “next week” to give explanations and argued that it was not possible before because there was no parliamentary activity last week in Spain and this had to be in Brussels. to appear before the European Parliament.

All this after the main political groups in the European Parliament agreed to postpone the verdicts of the six candidates to occupy the vice-presidencies of the next Community Executive of the German Ursula von der Leyen, including Ribera, with the aim of forcing a block decision so that None of those designated is approved until the rest are approved.

In the midst of a struggle between political families, the leaders of the so-called ‘grand coalition’ on which Von der Leyen’s approval is based, the one formed by the PPE, S&D and liberals (RE), went to the headquarters of the Commission to address the crisis with the head of the community Executive.

Different sources tell Europa Press that there was no progress but that the dialogue “remains open”, while the European Commission has limited itself to insisting on the urgency of resolving the situation to guarantee that the new College will be able to come into operation on 1 December and reiterated, through Von der Leyen’s spokesperson, that “nothing has changed” in the trust that the German placed in Ribera when appointing her as one of her vice presidents.

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