EU Council President Charles Michel will run within the election for European Parliament in June and can depart his publish mid-July if he will get elected, he mentioned in an interview with Belgian newspaper De Standaard printed on Saturday (6 January).
“I’ve determined to run within the European elections in 2024,” Michel mentioned.
“If I get elected, I’ll take my seat. The European Council can anticipate and identify a successor by end-June, early-July.”
Michel, 48, is a former Belgian prime minister and has served as chief of the EU Council, the group of presidency leaders of the 27 EU member states, since late 2019.
He’ll run as the highest candidate for his Belgian center-right Motion Reformateur (MR) social gathering, De Standaard mentioned.
The European Parliament election is scheduled to be held on 6 to 9 June 2024.
The son of fashionable Belgian politician Louis Michel, Charles Michel grew to become minister of growth cooperation in 2007 on the age of 31, and in 2014 grew to become the youngest Belgian Prime Minister since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841.
His MR social gathering is a part of the European liberal household, though in Belgium MR is taken into account as representing the centre-right.
That is the primary time {that a} sitting Council President will depart the publish earlier than the top of his mandate. Michel’s predecessors are Poland’s Donald Tusk and one other Belgian – Herman van Rompuy.
EU leaders are more likely to determine who will take over from Michel at their common summit of 27-28 June.
Andrew Duff, a former MEP specialised in constitutional affairs, known as the introduced departure of Charles Michel from his publish “a giant dangerous dereliction”. In response to Duff, the Council President performs the central constitutional perform in forming the brand new Fee in accord with the Parliament.
(Edited by Georgi Gotev)
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