The socialists insist: “No vice-presidency for Fitto”. The People’s Party relaunched: “Then we don’t vote for Ribeira.” Von der Leyen will try to keep irreconcilable forces together
The European Commission von der Leyen 2 maybe there will be and maybe not. The new Ursula majority, the one that re-elected Ursula last July, however never existed and yesterday demonstrated it for the umpteenth time in a particularly sensational way. For this reason, for once, he is completely right Salvini when, after announcing without any surprise the League’s vote against, and presumably all the Patriots, he adds: “The Commission starts very weak”. As long as he leaves and that’s not a given at all.
The president’s attempts at mediation in the last two days have not led to any results. The socialists remain firm in their opposition to the vice-presidency assigned to Fitto. They pose no problems regarding the appointment as commissioner, especially after his hearing between the Christian Democrat and the doc pro-European. They say they are ready to blow everything up on the issue of the vice presidency. The request is clear: first the five vice-presidents expressed by the groups will be voted on as a group.of majority”those who supported the re-election of von der Leyen, the People’s Party, the Socialists, the Liberals and the Greens. Then we move on to the sixth deputy, the one outside the majority, and clearly he is rejected. All this to clarify that i Conservatory Of Giorgia Meloni they are not part of the majority and that the cordon sanitaire against the right, even if the slightly more presentable right, that of the Conservatives, is on the border. The popular ones don’t give an inch. They insist on Thick ready to pel the socialist commissioner and vice-president with pellets in case of rejection Teresa Ribeira, came under fire more than ever because it was accused of co-responsibility in the Valencia disaster.
The president has 12 days to seek mediation. The final vote on the commission is set for November 27. The agreement on the vice presidents must be reached first. It is not possible to even try before November 20th, when Ribeira will report to the Spanish Parliament on Valencia, as requested and imposed by the People’s Party, at the urging of the Spanish delegation, who otherwise would not have voted for it. The agreement should be finalized first and concluded between the 20th and 27th. The president of the European Parliament is, or pretends to be, optimistic: “You have until the 27th”. There are few possible solutions to get out of the impasse. Bargaining for seats, repaying the socialists for any surrender with some promotion, or the cancellation of all vice-presidencies, a hypothesis that von der Leyen had already taken into consideration in July.
National leaders could be the ones to unblock the situation, aware of how disastrous the failure of the new Commission would be given the impact that the presidency will inevitably have Trump and with the two leading countries, Germania e France, one deprived of a government and the other of a strong government. Yesterday the president of the EPP Weber he assured his MEPs in the group meeting that the European Council would give the green light to Fitto. The socialist group leader fell from the clouds, she said she didn’t know anything but added a “I take note of it” which led the most optimistic to rosy forecasts.
But yesterday’s confrontation took place against the backdrop of a collective piscodrama in the chamber which on the one hand explains the Commission’s stalemate but on the other also reveals how useless and fake a diplomatic and falsely unitary solution would be and indeed probably will be. The Popolari and the entire right approved together, against the rest of the Ursula majority 2an amendment to the rule on deforestation which at best weakens it greatly and at worst nullifies it, so much so that the Greens and Socialists have asked the president to withdraw the entire law on deforestation at this point. In fact, a category has been added, that of “Countries”not at risk” which will allow us to circumvent the obligation to combat deforestation in at least some countries.
It is not the first time that the Popolari have voted with the right, Conservatives, Patriots and in some cases even them “untouchables” Sovereignists led by German Afd: it’s yet another one, in fact it’s the norm in the new European Parliament. But this time the split of the so-called “majority” it is particularly sensational because it was produced on a crucial and essential issue for both the Socialists and Democrats and the Greens. The problem of Europe is not called Thick and it’s not called Ribeira: the crux is the abysmal strategic distance that separates the two parties on which the alliance should be based Strasbourg. The Popolari have chosen to open to the right and they demonstrate it every day. The Socialists try to defend as best they can the positions that remain to them, which are increasingly threatened, and for this reason they need to build a wall against the right.
The vote in July was expressed by pretending to ignore this reality and this incompatibility but the fiction could not stand up even for a day to the test of facts and votes in the chamber. For this reason, perhaps the Commission will sail thanks to a sleight of hand by the president and perhaps not, but the political rift of the Union, added to the eternal rift between the different national interests, will remain in any case and it is not the condition and is not the best situation for face a very difficult negotiation like the one with the Usa Of Trump.
