Why the EPP Congress helped the party to win the next European elections
With 79% of the votes (492 out of 619 valid votes cast), on Thursday Manfred Weber became the lead candidate of the European People’s Party for the next European elections in May 2019. And, even if the campaign for the EP elections has just officially started, Weber is in fact the most likely man in Europe to win the Commission presidency as there’s no reason to doubt that the EPP will be, again, the largest group inside the European Parliament.