MBut what happened to the LRs in Europe? Three years ago, the Alsatian Joseph Daul, a formidable networker, chaired the European People’s Party (EPP) and left the keys to the most powerful formation in Europe to the Polish Donald Tusk. Three years later, the Rotterdam Congress, which ended on Wednesday, ended with the bitterest defeat of French elected officials. The only French candidate, Franck Proust, for one of the vice-presidencies at stake was beaten in a ballot where 11 candidates were competing… 10 posts.
The difference in votes between the most elected of the vice-presidents, European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel (403 votes), and the 10e elected, the Spaniard Esteban Gonzalez-Pons (303 votes), stands. Franck Proust, the only beaten, wins very clearly with 157 votes. The sanction of the French candidate…
