MEP Election Watch – Greens choose candidates for Commission President

The European Greens picked Germany’s Ska Keller and Dutchman Bas Eickhout as co-candidates for European Commission president, at the party’s congress Saturday, making them the faces of the party’s campaign in the May 2019 European election.

POLITICO reports that Keller finished first, securing more than 50 percent support in the second round of voting. Eickhout then defeated Belgian senator and gynecology professor Petra De Sutter, winning 62 percent support in a run-off for the second slot. Keller and Eickhout are both members of the European Parliament.

The Greens, and affiliated Free Alliance members, currently have 52 seats in the Parliament, around 7 percent of the total.

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