{"id":970868,"date":"2026-05-19T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/970868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:16","slug":"liberals-open-to-a-third-term-for-metsola-at-helm-of-eu-parliament-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/970868\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals open to a third term for Metsola at helm of EU Parliament \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Hayer fell short of backing Metsola, her comments signal the liberals are taking a different stance than the Socialists, whose leader Iratxe Garc\u00eda said they have a deal that gives her group the right to name Metsola\u2019s successor.<strong> <\/strong>Manfred Weber, the head of Metsola\u2019s European People\u2019s Party, has publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/epp-chief-manfred-weber-threaten-blow-up-agreement-socialists-parliament-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cast doubt<\/a> on whether the EPP would comply with such a deal, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/5-key-things-eu-parliament-midterm-reshuffle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MEPs <\/a>say Metsola is already campaigning behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Renew wants any presidential candidate to keep the EPP tied to the political center \u2014 despite the president representing political lawmakers of all stripes \u2014 after the center-right group repeatedly relied on the far right in both the parliamentary chamber and in the Conference of Presidents, a key decision-making body, according to two Renew officials, granted anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think Metsola has genuinely been a good president, with the exception of those comments about working with the far right,\u201d said one of the officials, referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europes-centrists-may-have-to-work-with-the-far-right-to-get-work-done-warns-eu-parliament-chief-roberta-metsola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">comments she made in October about the need to \u201ckeep majorities working.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the easiest thing for everyone if things just stay the same,\u201d the official added, referring to the centrist coalition of EPP, S&amp;D and Renew.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens agree that the next president needs to tackle the unpredictability brought about by the right-wing majority in the Parliament, Greens co-chair Terry Reintke said Tuesday, reacting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/ukraine-gets-closer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a president that pushes to have a pro-European stable majority in this house will of course be key in our decision on who to support,\u201d Reintke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Hayer fell short of backing Metsola, her comments signal the liberals are taking a different stance than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":970869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,219847,299,5187,1699,1105,84488,30995,31621,180615,41048],"class_list":["post-970868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-eu-staff","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-far-right","tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","tag-manfred-weber","tag-roberta-metsola","tag-terry-reintke","tag-valerie-hayer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}