{"id":127001,"date":"2019-07-11T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/mainstream-parties-block-euroskeptics-from-top-parliament-posts\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:31:23","slug":"mainstream-parties-block-euroskeptics-from-top-parliament-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/mainstream-parties-block-euroskeptics-from-top-parliament-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream parties block Euroskeptics from top Parliament posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mainstream, pro-EU political parties in the European Parliament moved aggressively to block Euroskeptic and extremist groups from claiming several prominent committee leadership posts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That blocking effort enraged anti-establishment forces and potentially put at risk an overall deal on the EUs future leadership.<\/p>\n

One group leader, Ryszard Legutko of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), pointedly warned that his MEPs were less likely to support the deal on top jobs agreed by European leaders last week after one of their members \u2014 former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szyd\u0142o \u2014 was blocked from becoming chairwoman of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

Anti-establishment forces, including far-right and extremist groups, gained strength in the recent European election. The new Identity and Democracy (ID) group, a partnership between Matteo Salvinis League in Italy and Marine Le Pens National Rally in France, is now the fifth-largest group with 73 MEPs \u2014 just two fewer than the Greens.<\/p>\n

Together, ID and ECR have 135 MEPs, far more than the 108 seats controlled by the liberal-centrist Renew Europe, backed by French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

But pro-European forces overall control 519 seats and they wielded that muscle Wednesday to deny the insurgent groups several positions, effectively upending the so-called DHondt method by which leadership positions are traditionally apportioned among parliamentary groups.<\/p>\n

ID had expected to hold the chair of the agriculture committee but its nominee, French MEP Maxette Pirbakas, was blocked by the four pro-EU parties. They instead elected Norbert Lins, a German MEP from the conservative European Peoples Party. Pirbakas was then also rejected for two vice chair positions, before voting was suspended for the final spots.<\/p>\n

In one of the most bitter stings for the far right, the pro-EU groups also voted down an ID candidate, French MEP Gilles Lebreton of National Rally, who had expected to be chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n

Instead, a British liberal, Lucy Nethsingha, was elected to head the panel, which among other responsibilities maintains oversight of the limited parliamentary immunity enjoyed by MEPs. Nethsingha may be out of the Parliament come October 31 after Britain leaves the EU.<\/p>\n

J\u00f3zsef Sz\u00e1jer, an MEP from Hungarys ruling Fidesz party who chaired the initial vote in the legal affairs committee, had implored colleagues to respect the handshake agreement and the proportional formula.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to ask you, as the legal affairs committee, to observe the old traditions of the rule of law of our committees and elections, which is based on agreements by political groups,\u201d Sz\u00e1jer said. \u201cWe have worked with those rules for 40 years, and if those agreements are not upheld, the consequences are unforeseeable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the pro-EU MEPs were unmoved by the request from Sz\u00e1jer. Sylvie Guillaume, a French socialist, accused ID of having transparent motives in seeking to lead the legal affairs committee, known as JURI. \u201cIt fools no one that they chose the JURI committee, where parliamentary immunities are waived,\u201d Guillaume said.<\/p>\n

When Le Pen was an MEP in 2017, for example, Parliament voted to lift her immunity<\/a> over pictures she tweeted of Islamic State violence.<\/p>\n

While the blocking maneuvers essentially maintained the cordon sanitaire<\/em> that pro-EU groups have used to limit the power of extremists and nationalists, the rising strength of the anti-establishment groups raises the possibility of a backlash.<\/p>\n

Several MEPs, infuriated by the blocking effort, warned of just such reprisal in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n

The Euroskeptics and nationalists currently do not hold any vice presidency position in the Parliament, a remarkable absence from leadership given their overall numbers in the assembly. That means they still have no MEPs to chair plenary sittings nor any representation in the Parliaments \u201cbureau,\u201d where the most important decisions on the workings of the Parliament are made.<\/p>\n

One Euroskeptic in Parliament accused the pro-EU groups of hypocrisy, by claiming to be defenders of democracRead More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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