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Brussels (ANSA) – After days of ready, negotiations, and tensions, the hearings of the 26 EU commissioner candidates start this afternoon. That is the second-to-last step, however an important one, on the trail to formalizing the brand new European government led by Ursula von der Leyen. The hearings can be held from Monday to Thursday for the commissioner candidates, November 12 for the six candidates for government vice presidency, together with Raffaele Fitto.
Of the 26 candidates, fourteen are from the EPP, 5 liberals, 4 socialists, one from ECR, one is a member of the Patriots and one is working as an impartial. The outgoing Maros Sefcovic – Slovak, confirmed as an impartial by Prime Minister Robert Fico regardless of the latter’s sovereignist shift – and the Maltese socialist Glenn Micallef, the youngest among the many candidates, will begin the exams on the European Parliament.
The hearings start at 2:30 pm, final three hours, and contain the related parliamentary committees, specifically these coping with the identical topics assigned to the candidate. Sefcovic is a candidate for Commissioner for Commerce and Financial Safety, Micallef for Tradition.
On the finish of the listening to, a candidate wants the approval of two/3 of the group coordinators within the voting committees to move. If the quorum isn’t reached, MEPs can ask for extra written questions or a brand new listening to. Even on this case, the mandatory quorum is 2/3 of the coordinators.
If it’s not reached, the candidate is voted on by secret poll by all members of the related committees, with a easy majority because the quorum (November 4).
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