{"id":378616,"date":"2024-07-16T20:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/16\/parlamento-ue-elezione-vicepresidenti\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:36:39","slug":"in-the-eu-parliament-the-cordon-sanitaire-against-the-far-right-holds-among-the-14-vice-presidents-are-picierno-pd-and-sberna-fdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/16\/in-the-eu-parliament-the-cordon-sanitaire-against-the-far-right-holds-among-the-14-vice-presidents-are-picierno-pd-and-sberna-fdi\/","title":{"rendered":"In the EU Parliament the cordon sanitaire against the far right holds. Among the 14 Vice Presidents are Picierno (PD) and Sberna (FdI)."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the envoy in Strasbourg<\/em> – After the Presidency of the EU Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP) also takes home its first, second, and third Vice-Presidency. A new political masterpiece for the parliamentary group most strengthened after the June 6-9<\/strong> elections, with none of the controversy and backlash seen two-and-a-half-years ago, but still of great significance for the en plein <\/em>on the podium of deputies of Roberta Metsola<\/strong>. The consolation for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group is the election of more than a third of the 14 Vice Presidents<\/a> and, more specifically for the Democratic Party, the confirmation of outgoing Pina Picierno<\/strong> for another term<\/strong>. In the second round of voting, Fratelli d’Italia scores a historic result with the election of one of its MEPs, Antonella Sberna<\/strong>, to the post of right hand to the President. The cordon sanitaire against the far-right worked, with all three candidates from Patriots for Europe (2) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (1) rejected.<\/p>\n

\"Sabine<\/a>
The First Vice-President of the European Parliament elected for the European People’s Party (EPP) group, Sabine Verheyen (Christian Democratic Union of Germany)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back to physical ballots after the (currently unsuccessful) experiment\u00a0of electronic voting in January 2022, just like Metsola’s confirmation,<\/a>\u00a0the election of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the EU Parliament also followed a virtually already written script this afternoon (July 16). On the first round of voting, 11 passed, all from the centrist Popular-Social Democrats-Liberal majority, plus the Greens\/ALE,<\/strong> who for the past month\u00a0have been pushing for “responsibility”\u00a0ahead\u00a0of\u00a0the confirmation vote<\/a> of Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> to the Presidency of the European Commission on Thursday (July 18).<\/p>\n

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\"Pina<\/a>
The Vice-President of the European Parliament elected for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group, Pina Picierno (Democratic Party)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

With the required minimum threshold of 333 votes out of 665 validly cast, the three Populars – Germany’s Sabine Verheyen<\/strong> (604), Poland’s Ewa Kopacz<\/strong> (572), and Spain’s Esteban Gonz\u00e1lez Pons<\/strong> (478) – the five Social Democrats – Germany’s Katarina Barley<\/strong> (450), outgoing Vice President Pina Picierno<\/strong> (who opened the inaugural session of the EU Parliament,<\/a> (405), the Romanian Victor Negrescu<\/strong> (394), Denmark’s Christel Schaldemose<\/strong> (378) and Spain’s Javi L\u00f3pez<\/strong> (377) – the two from Renew Europe – Slovak Martin Hojs\u00edk<\/strong> (393), and Belgium’s Sophie Wilm\u00e8s<\/strong> (371) – and Romania’s Green Nicolae \u0218tef\u0103nu\u021b\u0103<\/strong> (347). By only 10 votes, Fratelli d’Italia MEP Sberna failed to reach the minimum threshold (323).<\/p>\n

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\"Antonella<\/a>
From left, European Parliament Vice Presidents-elect for the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group: Latvian Roberts Z\u012ble (National Alliance) and Italian Antonella Sberna (Fratelli d’Italia)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

With the election proving that the perimeter of the majority does not include either the Left or the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)<\/strong>, a second round was held, where the ‘cordon sanitaire’ against the far-right<\/a> was finally applied. Not only against\u00a0the\u00a0Europe of Sovereign Nations<\/a>\u00a0group\u00a0(which has\u00a0only 25 members and is the smallest group) but more importantly towards Patriots for Europe<\/a>, which, with 84 members, represents the third largest group in the EU Parliament. With the minimum threshold lowered to 305 votes (out of 609 validly cast), the two conservatives – Latvia’s Roberts Z\u012ble<\/strong> (confirmed with 490) and Antonella Sberna<\/strong> (314), the first Italian radical right-wing MEP elected as Vice-President of the EU Parliament – and the Left’s candidate, France’s Younous Omarjee<\/strong> (311), were thus elected.<\/p>\n

While the conservative right-wing\u00a0finds further legitimacy in the top posts of the EU Parliament – Latvian Z\u012ble had already been elected Vice-President in January 2022 – already since the beginning of the tenth term, the even more\u00a0sovereignist and extreme right<\/a>\u00a0has been marginalized from political discourse in Strasbourg and Brussels. The three losers in the vote test are ESN’s candidate – the Polish Kondeferacja Ewa Zaj\u0105czkowska-Hernik <\/strong>(46 votes) – and the PfE’s two choices, the Czech from ANO 2011 Kl\u00e1ra Dost\u00e1lov\u00e1<\/strong> (116), and the former Frontex director elected from the ranks of the French National Rally Fabrice Leggeri <\/strong>(177).<\/p>\n

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After Roberta Metsola’s confirmation as Chair, the Populars also secured a deputy (Sabine Verheyen), while the Social Democrats elected a third, including the outgoing PD MEP. The MEP from Fratelli d’Italia also passes in the second round, while candidates from Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations are excluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":378581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[28522,25755,26347,28523],"class_list":["post-378616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-antonella-sberna-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-pina-picierno-en","tag-sabine-verheyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379583,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378616\/revisions\/379583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}