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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12392

18 December 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 31
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / European ombudsman
No one obtained necessary majority at end of first round of voting of five candidates for post

17/12/2019 (Agence Europe)The European Parliament will vote again by secret ballot on Wednesday 18 December at 12:30 pm to elect the new European Ombudsman. At the end of the first round, none of the five candidates had obtained the necessary majority. The current Ombudsman, Ireland’s Emily O'Reilly, received 240 votes, far ahead of Estonian Julia Laffranque, a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (162 votes), the former Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikström (73),...

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