Republicans will oppose the reappointment of Ursula von der Leyen on the congress of the European proper | EUROtoday

With the danger of discovering themselves at odds with the remainder of their political household, the elected representatives of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering, who’re going, Wednesday March 6 and Thursday March 7, to the congress of the European proper organized in Bucharest , will oppose the anticipated nomination, by the European People's Party (EPP), of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen as candidate for a brand new mandate.

Held in Paris by the assembly organized on Ukraine on Thursday by Emmanuel Macron, the top of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, introduced Tuesday on Franceinfo that he had written to the top of the EPP, Manfred Weber, to tell him that the outgoing president “will not benefit from the support of the LR”. The deputy for Alpes-Maritimes criticizes M^me von der Leyen, from the EPP, to embody “a form of technocratic drift which is harming our farmers” And “opening borders to migrants”.

With eight MEPs, the Republicans hardly have the means to affect the most important group within the European Parliament, which has 178 out of 705. Head of the French right-wing checklist, outgoing MEP François-Xavier Bellamy is conscious of this and informed Agence France-Presse that he hopes that EPP delegates will be capable of specific themselves throughout a vote on Thursday in Bucharest with the intention to exhibit that “the French are not the only ones to have reservations about this candidacy”.

“We accept that we are in the minority”

Mr. Bellamy, who’s stagnating round 8% within the polls, believes that the EPP's opposition final week to the “Restoration of Nature” textual content, pushed by the Commission, constitutes “a sign that there is a frustration very widely shared by many colleagues in the group”.

According to a celebration supply, M^me von der Leyen, elected 5 years in the past “with only nine votes difference”, may encounter difficulties this 12 months to be renewed “if the base of the EPP is reduced after the elections and [que] LR MEPs vote against it ». “The only way to get rid of it is to send as many Republican deputies as possible to sit in the European Parliament, within the EPP”argued, for his half, the president of the LR group within the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix.

Both Mr. Ciotti and Mr. Bellamy denied that LR's opposition to the candidacy of M.^me von der Leyen is synonymous with a break with the European proper. “We have no intention of weakening the unity of the EPP”defended Mr. Bellamy. “We assume in a political family to be a minority”defined, for his half, Mr. Ciotti, who assures that he doesn’t imagine within the re-election of the outgoing president and says he’s satisfied that the EPP must search for one other resolution.

The European elections in June will result in a renewal of the heads of the primary establishments of the European Union, together with that of the Commission, which should replicate the political stability ensuing from the election. The EPP has essentially the most heads of state and authorities inside the Twenty-Seven and will come out on high within the elections, in response to polls.