Von der Leyen achieves the approval of the European Parliament for her new Executive, with Ribera and Fitto as vice presidents

BRUSSELS Nov. 27 () –

The plenary session of the European Parliament approved this Wednesday the new community Executive of Ursula von der Leyen, a Commission that will begin its mandate next Sunday, December 1, with seven vice-presidencies on its team, including the Just Transition for the Spanish Teresa Ribera. and Cohesion for the ultra-conservative Raffaele Fitto.

After overcoming a week of difficult negotiations with crossed vetoes, the plenary session meeting in Strasbourg (France) has confirmed its green light with a tight majority of 370 votes in favor, 282 against and 36 abstentions.

Von der Leyen’s team needed a simple majority of the votes cast in the session to move forward, which was guaranteed after the agreement sealed last week by the European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the Renew (RE) liberals for a “pro-European” agenda in the legislature. Also a majority of the Greens group and part of the ultra-conservatives of ECR ​​advanced their support.

In the absence of the roll-call vote being published, the Spanish PP and Vox announced that they will vote against the entire Commission for its rejection of Ribera, while MEPs from Sumar, Podemos, BNG, EH Bildu, ERC, Compromís said they reject the vice presidency for Fitto for seeing in her a turn towards the extreme right.