The European Conservatives and Reformists, the group of Italian Prime Minister and far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, avoided the cordon sanitaire at the European Parliament table. The European Chamber ended the elections today by choosing the five Researchersa bureaucratic figure. With greater political weight, the 14 vice-presidents and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, were elected yesterday, in a vote in which the extremist groups of the far-right space – the “Patriots for Europe and Europe’s sovereign states” – were not present at the table.
Fourteen Vice Presidents and five Researchers Together with the President, they form the Parliamentary Table, which determines the rules of the Council’s work, prepares the draft budget and decides on administrative, personnel and organisational issues. However, Researchers They are merely members of the table in an advisory capacity, and are not counted against the majority in making decisions.
14 Vice Presidents
The new vice-presidents include Catalan MEP for PSC Javi López and MEP for PP Esteban González Pons. The EPP has four representatives on the table, including European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, as well as vice-presidents Sabine Verheyen and Ewa Kopacz.
Apart from Lopez, Vice-Presidents Victor Negresco, Katarina Barley, Pina Picerno and Cherstel Schaldmus are the other MEPs in the Socialists and Democrats (S&D, by its English acronym). The S&D group therefore has up to five members at the table.
With the addition of the vice-president of Renova Europe, the Belgian liberal Sophie Wilmès, the grand coalition has half the votes in favour of decisions of a more political nature, for example in debates such as the use of the Catalan language.
Meloni’s group includes two vice-presidents: Slovak Roberts Zil and Italian Antonella Sperna, while to the left of the Socialists and Democrats are the vice-president of Green ALE, Romanian Nicolae Stefanotta, and the vice-president of the Unitarian Left, Frenchman Younes Omarji.
In addition to their own functions, Vice-Presidents may replace the President, also during plenary sessions and in representing Parliament at ceremonies or specific business, when necessary.
five Researchers
The European Chamber has selected these five newcomers. Researchers: Andrei Kovachev and Miriam Lezman, socialist Mark Engel, liberal Fabian Keller, and Polish Law and Justice Kosma Zlotowski. Researchers They deal with administrative matters that directly affect the deputies themselves.
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