Three lead candidates for EU Commission presidency failed to get support

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Posted by: Vasile Cojocari

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21 June 2019 / 11:44

Three lead candidates for EU Commission presidency failed to get support

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday the three so-called Spitzenkandidaten - or lead candidates - for the European Commission presidency had each failed to receive enough support among European Union leaders in Brussels, Reuters reports.

“The three Spitzenkandidaten, the three names were tested by (European Council Chairman) Donald Tusk and he considered that they had found no majority on either of these three names,” he told reporters after an EU summit.

Macron had campaigned to block German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s candidate, Manfred Weber, a deputy head of her centre-right sister party, CSU, who had been picked by the conservatives as their candidate for the Commission.

Asked whether there was tension between France and Germany over the nomination process, Macron said:

“I have nothing against a German candidacy, I said it and it wasn’t a joke, had the chancellor been a candidate, I would have supported her, because I think she has the qualities, the skills to be a very good president of the Commission.”

“It is not what she wants, I respect that very deeply,” Macron added.

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