The previous Secretary of State for Justice and former Deputy Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho is a candidate for European Ombudsman and will probably be heard on December 3, introduced in the present day the President of the European Parliament (EP), Roberta Metsola.
Along with Teresa Anjinho, the Austrian Claudia Mahler, Estonian Julia Laffranque, Dutch Reinier van Zutphen, and Italians Emílio de Capitani and Marino Fardelli have utilized for the place, whose hearings by the EP happen on the identical date.
The previous CDS-PP deputy is presently a member of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Workplace (OLAF).
Candidates will need to have the help of a minimal of 39 Members of the European Parliament from no less than two Member States, and candidates current their priorities at a listening to organized by the Petitions Committee, on December 3.
The election takes place by secret poll, on the December plenary session.
The European Ombudsman was established by the Maastricht Treaty (1992), with Finn Jacob Söderman inaugurating the place in 1995, succeeded in 2003 by Greek Nikiforos Diamandouros.
The present European Ombudsman, Irish Emily O’Reilly, took workplace on October 1, 2013, and her mandate has been renewed twice, following the European elections of 2014 and 2019.
The European Ombudsman is an impartial entity that investigates complaints about maladministration within the operations of the establishments and our bodies of the European Union.
Basically, it investigates complaints regarding instances of disregard for residents’ elementary rights, authorized norms, or ideas of fine administration (particularly, instances of discrimination, abuse of energy, lack of response, refusal of data, and unjustified delays).