Frans Timmermans, the Socialists’ leading candidate in the EU elections, has promised to champion a sustainable Europe if he is anointed to lead the next European Commission.
It will even be part of the European campaign, especially if, as I would like to see, EFA presents its own Spitzenkandidat (‘leading candidate’).
Last September, Manfred Weber, leading candidate for the EPP in the European elections, called for Bulgaria and Croatia to join but did not mention Romania.
Our group has remained firm in the defense of European democracy and the leading candidate or Spitzenkandidat process, and we don’t want it to die,” Iratxe Garcia, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), said in a statement.
Our group has remained firm in the defense of European democracy and the leading candidate or Spitzenkandidat process, and we don’t want it to die,” Iratxe Garcia, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), said in a statement.
In 2014, they had no issue putting forward a lead candidate.
Europe’s two largest families of parties have already appointed their lead candidates.
The EPP will choose its lead candidate at a party congress in Helsinki in November.
Will the European Peoples Party (EPP) lead candidate Manfred Weber (Germany, CSU) make it to becoming the next Commission President?
The model of the lead candidate has had its day, writes political scientist Cornelia Woll in Le Monde:
Frans Timmermans officially endorsed as Spitzenkandidat
Main article: President of the European Commission § Spitzenkandidat
The reference is to the spitzenkandidaten process.
Says "I was the first and the last spitzenkandidat
European elections 2019: What is a spitzenkandidat?
I believe in the Spitzenkandidat, I think it is a very good one. (…) I consider as a progress that the existing political families propose a Spitzenkandidat.
The European elections are based, we hear, on the Spitzenkandidat.
I believe in the Spitzekandidat, I think it is a very good one. (…) I consider as a progress that the existing political families propose a Spitzenkandidat.
I believe in the Spitzenkandidat, I think it is a very good one. (…) I consider as a progress that the existing political families propose a Spitzenkandidat.
In fact, not even the Spitzenkandidat process is ensured.
Jean-Claude Juncker was the European People’s Party (EPP) candidate in 2014
Germany is the main supporter of the Spitzenkandidat system.
Parliament calls for Spitzenkandidat to be respected, liberals oppose it
European elections 2019: Who will be the Social Democrats’ choice to become the next Spitzenkandidat?
The party will pick its Spitzenkandidat at a congress in Helsinki in early November.
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