Weber’s ambitions to encounter first post-election hurdle

The European Parliament’s new liberal group indicated that it will declare that “no candidate has secured a majority in the European Parliament,” dealing a blow to the Commission presidency chances of the European People’s Party’s Manfred Weber.

POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook is reporting that the group, for now calling itself “ALDE plus Renaissance plus USR Plus” and made up of the members of the original ALDE, plus French President Emmanuel Macron’s MEPs and a new Romanian movement led by former PM and European Commissioner Dacian Cioloș, will make the claim in a statement to be released later Monday.

Politico reports that the group states  that “no pro-European majority is possible without the new central group that the ALDE Family, Renaissance, USR Plus and other reform-driven like-minded parties will create” and confirms  the liberal group’s anti-Spitzenkandidat stance.

Via Politico