No definitive decision was made by the Party of the European Left (EL) on the question of whether to present a Spitzenkandidat in May 2019, at its general assembly in Brussels on Sunday 30 September. A final decision has been postponed until the meeting of the executive board on 26 and 27 January 2019.
“First of all, a sufficiently well-known figure needs to emerge”, an EL source explained on Monday 1 October, stressing that it would be hard to find a candidate able to gather consensus...