Leader Chegi will defend the Identity and Democracy groups and the Conservatives in the European Parliament to take a political position against former Prime Minister António Costa’s possibility of presiding over the European Council.
“I want to say without any doubt that what we are going to offer to the ID and the Conservatives, once this rapprochement is achieved, is that what was not good for Portugal, we do not want for Europe,” the leader said Arrives in statements to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic.
Ventura said he would make the call at a meeting of the Identity and Democracy group on Wednesday, where the agenda includes a debate about a possible alliance of the ID “with other European parties and mainly with the political group of European Conservatives and Democrats.” Reformists.”
“At this meeting there is naturally a balance of power that has been created in the European Parliament, with the rise of several ID parties and the emergence of others in the chamber, as well as the possibility of creating an alliance with the conservative parties and the Conservative group. party,” Ventura said.
It is the European Council that elects its president by qualified majority for a term of two and a half years, renewable once.
The current president, Charles Michel, took office on December 1, 2019, and was re-elected to a second term on March 24, 2022. His second term began on June 1, 2022.
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro announced on Sunday that AD’s government would support António Costa if the socialist decides to stand for the presidency of the European Council.
According to Ventura, at the ID meeting “the first goal is to try to prevent the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen” as president of the European Commission.
Ventura also took stock of Cega’s result at the last European Championship, regretting that the game did not win as it had been set as a goal.
“Even though we were elected to the European Union by 50 to almost 400 thousand votes, this was not what we wanted, we wanted to win, we will be here in the next elections to fight, to win, and that’s what “What I will try to do,” he concluded.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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