Brussels (ANSA) – The Slovenian case dangers additional delaying the presentation of the brand new Fee by Ursula von der Leyen. Tomorrow, in Ljubljana, a vote is predicted by the native parliamentary committee on the brand new candidate for the Fee, Marta Kos, chosen by Prime Minister Robert Golob after the withdrawal of Tomaz Vesel. The committee, nonetheless, is chaired by the (SDS) social gathering of former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, which is aligned with the Folks’s Get together however has lengthy taken Eurosceptic and positively anti-von der Leyen positions.
And the social gathering may refuse to schedule the vote of the parliamentary committee, thus additional delaying the formal completion of the candidates. The Slovenian delegation of the EPP, which voted towards von der Leyen as Spitzenkandidat, introduced prior to now few hours that they won’t assist the candidate chosen by their very own authorities. However discontent additionally impacts the Slovenian delegation within the socialist group that has submitted a request for entry to paperwork to acquire info on the actual cause why Vesel withdrew.
“In mild of the intense lack of knowledge in Slovenian public opinion relating to the nomination means of the brand new commissioner and the failure to reveal official paperwork by the federal government of the Republic of Slovenia, which additional reinforces mistrust within the course of, I formally request the European Fee to publish all paperwork referring to the nomination of this 12 months’s Slovenian commissioner which have been exchanged between the European Fee and the federal government of the Republic of Slovenia,” introduced MEP Milan Zver (12 September).