Herman Van Rompuy has met leaders from the European Parliament to talk about the practical arrangements for electing the European Commission’s next president.
On 10 April Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, met with the president of the Parliament, Martin Schulz, plus leaders of the parliamentary groups. According to a statement from the Parliament, a “large majority” of leaders agreed that the next Commission president must be elected from the candidates that have already been nominated by their respective groups.
EU citizens are due to go to the polls this May to elect the next Parliament, and for the first time, the outcome of the election is expected influence who will be chosen as the next president of the Commission. The Parliament’s three largest parties struck a deal earlier this month to confirm that the candidate put forward by the winning group will get to be the first to try to elicit sufficient support from all MEPs to become Commission president.
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