Montserrat will probably keep his other jobs as the leader of the Spanish People’s Party delegation and vice-president of the EPP group in the Parliament, while taking an additional full-time job as a secretary general.
Weber has regularly placed key allies of the Parliament in high-level posts, notably the deputy French deputy Xavier-François Bellamy as treasurer and former Belgian European deputy Tom Vandenkendelae as chief of staff. He sidelined opponents such as his current and the outgoing secretary general Thanasis Bakolas, who previously challenged him.
The EPP, the most powerful European Party which dominates the institutions for the development of EU policies, undergoes an internal reworking of employment and a reform of the guiding bodies, because it fights internal divisions following the party’s right quarter since the EU election in June.
The president and the secretary general will be officially elected during a party congress in Valencia from April 29 to 30.
The Loyalists of Weber, like the Romanian legislator Siegfried Mureșan, qualified Montserrat as a good choice.
“She is a very good politician and has a long career in Spanish politics, also growing in (EPP,” said Mureșan.
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