Luxembourgish Jean-Claude Juncker is officially the president of the new European Commission who will take office on November XNUMXst. The definitive nomination came with the vote of theEuropean Parliament, which today spoke on the name of the former issue of the Eurogroup, indicated on 27 June by the heads of state and government of the Union. The plenary assembly in Strasbourg elected Juncker by secret ballot with 422 votes in favor, 250 against, 47 abstentions and 10 null ballots.
Candidate by the EPP, but also supported by Socialists and Liberals, Juncker obtained a number of votes much higher than the absolute majority required for election (376 votes out of 751 seats). The result also went beyond forecasts, who had indicated the threshold for a very stable political majority at 400 votes. The sum of the votes of the three groups that supported the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg is 479, but it was known that the support of the British Labor Party, the Spanish Socialist Party and the Hungarian People's Party would be lacking.
Juncker is the Commission President he got more votes in the last four mandatesi, after the decade of Jacques Delors: Jacques Santer had 2004 votes in favor in 260, Romano Prodi 392 in 1999, José Manuel Barroso 413 in 2004 and then 382 in 2009, for his second mandate.
Before the vote, Juncker had held a programmatic speech focused on projects for growth and on the simultaneous commitment to compliance with the Fiscal Compact.
