2024-07-26 07:40:17
The first time of tension in the European Parliament. After the distribution of “higher jobs”, it is time for the distribution of positions for the representatives elected last June. This Tuesday, the vote for the vice president of the committee “Human Rights” will take place. He returned to the left-wing group “The Left”, of which LFI is a member, vice-president. For this work, the group representatives chose to present the Franco-Palestinian judge and European MP, Rima Hassan. But unexpectedly, the vote did not take place.
At the last minute, the right-wing EPP party asked for the election to be postponed until September. The request was accepted after a majority vote of the Council. In question? Warning from LR European MP, François-Xavier Bellamy, spoke to his colleagues a few hours ago. This vote would have “given a platform” to the judge when it was “unfair to ever talk about human rights after his comments on October 7”, according to the director of the LR delegation in Strasbourg.
Elections for third and fourth vice-presidents were postponed well into the back-to-school season. For Bernard Guetta, Tunse deputy and leader of his party in this committee, François-Xavier Bellamy “received on board the position of the New party” while “about a quarter of an hour before the meeting of the committee of the position. of the EPP was non-interventionist in the elections. The MEP contests the way in which his LR colleague “won this fight”. Communicate with tweets which would have allowed Rima Hassan “to cultivate the situation more”, according to Bernard Guetta.
“We have never seen this in the European Parliament! »
The president of the subcommittee, biologist Mounir Satouri, expressed the same sadness: “If the goal is to make people talk about it, it works! He is not even a member of our board. “The MEP sees it as a “Franco-French subject” and wants to focus on “putting human rights issues back into all European decisions” and wants to “comment on these debates”. Bernard Guetta was angry: “It’s just an attempt to transfer the fights that took place in the Assembly to Brussels. We have not seen this in the European Parliament! »
The exchanges between the two MEPs continued This Thursday afternoon, in a press release published on the social network, the European deputy LR announced that he is filing a complaint for “death threats” and “the desire to commit a crime against the representative of choose” against the Franco-Palestinian lawyer.
The MEP responded through his lawyer Vincent Brengarth who announced the filing of two complaints against François-Xavier Bellamy, one for “public insult” and the other for “insulting”. In a press release, he protested “the destruction of his words which harm his reputation”.
Note that the centrist New party also asked for a delay for the fourth position of vice-president. The candidate presented by Giorgia Meloni’s party, the ECR party, is accused of opposing civil liberties and human rights in Poland.
The decision is made by the assembly of the authorities
Who will take these two positions now? Regardless of the delay, there are two positions “pointing” to the Left side and ECR. Both parties have not yet indicated whether they want to change candidates for the September election. Since we must respect the unity in the composition of the office, the group chaired by Manon Aubry will have some room to maneuver to find another candidate.
Other political parties may also choose to oppose these candidates by presenting other candidates. However, this “will contradict the decision of the conference of authorities that recorded the distribution of positions”, Mounir Satouri believes. The president of the commission also explained that with a president and two vice-presidents appointed on Tuesday, the work can continue normally. For the time being, the Left Party has not indicated whether it wants to maintain Rima Hassan’s candidacy for this position. Answer September 5.
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