Simply two days after the European elections, Marta Temido, Sebastião Bugalho and João Cotrim de Figueiredo are flying to Brussels. All three are new faces, with no earlier expertise within the European Parliament. The inauguration will solely happen on July 16, in Strasbourg, however they’re already transferring in the direction of their first contact with the establishment.
Cotrim de Figueiredo needs to be the primary to reach and from what Expresso has discovered he has a full schedule. The chief of the listing of the Liberal Initiative and quantity two on the listing, Ana Martins, will sit on the liberal bench, Renew Europe.
Marta Temido has a gathering with the present chief of the Socialists and Democrats bench, the Spaniard Iratxe Garcia. Additionally it is anticipated that the chief of the HR listing, Sebastião Bugalho, will spend a part of this Tuesday on the headquarters of the European Parliament, in Brussels.
This Sunday’s elections meant a whole renewal of the Portuguese MEPs. Of the present 21, solely Lídia Pereira was re-elected. Some analysts warn of a lack of affect for the nation and an elevated problem for the incoming MEPs.
The brand new half-cycle of 720 MEPs take workplace within the week of July sixteenth to the nineteenth. Till then, there have been many negotiations in order that these elected or re-elected can get the locations they need within the varied parliamentary committees and compete for positions of duty and affect, akin to coordination or vice-presidencies of teams and European Parliament.