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Three Spanish MEPs will chair committees in the European Parliament

by AI | 23.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The parliamentarians Javier Zarzalejos and Carmen Crespo (PP) and Lina Gálvez (PSOE) will be in charge of committees in the European Parliament.

Exterior of the European Parliament, a parliamentary institution in the European Union that represents European citizens and exercises legislative power. Photo: Alex Flores/Europa Press 13/7/2023

Brussels – The Spanish MEPs of the PP Javier Zarzalejos and Carmen Crespo were elected this Tuesday as presidents of the European Parliament committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and Fisheries, respectively, while the socialist Lina Gálvez will chair the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality committees.

The Sumar MEP Estrella Galán will also be one of the vice-presidents of the committee to be chaired by Zarzalejos, who will become the first PP MEP to hold this responsibility since it has had legislative powers. In the previous legislature, this committee was also chaired by a Spaniard, the socialist Juan Fernando López Aguilar.

On the other hand, the ‘popular’ Dolors Montserrat will be the first vice-president of the Petitions committee, which she chaired in the previous legislature, the same position that her party colleague Esther Herranz will hold in the committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, and the socialist Hana Jalloul in the Foreign Affairs committee.

The former Minister of Equality Irene Montero and the PP MEP Rosa Estarás will be vice-presidents in the committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, and the ERC MEP Diana Riba in the Committee on Culture and Education.

Furthermore, the ‘popular’ Adrián Vázquez will move from the presidency of the Constitutional Affairs committee in the previous legislature, when he held a seat for Ciudadanos, to holding one of its vice-presidencies.

Of the 20 committees in the Parliament, seven will be chaired by the European People’s Party (EPP); five by the Socialists and Democrats (S&D); three by the Conservatives and Reformists (ECR); two by the liberals (Renew); two others by the Greens and one by the Left.

Thus, the European Parliament has managed to maintain a sanitary cordon against the newly created far-right groups in this legislature of the Patriots for Europe, driven by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and the Sovereign Nations of Europe, created by the German ultra-party Alternative for Germany.

Meanwhile, ECR, led by the party of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is the only group to the right of the EPP in the hemicycle that has avoided isolation from the rest of the parties after the President of the European Commission, the ‘popular’ German Ursula von der Leyen, extended a hand to them by considering that they are “pro-Europe, pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin, and pro-Rule of Law.” (July 23)