31/01/2020 (Agence Europe) – With the announcement on Friday 31 January of the election of Apostolos Tzitzikostas of Greece as candidate for President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) by the EPP group, the two candidates for the Committee's top seat are now known. On 4 December last, the PES group elected the Portuguese candidate Vasco Alves Cordeiro (see EUROPE 12387/5), President of the regional government of the Azores and also of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR). The election of the new president, who will succeed Belgian Karl-Heinz Lambertz (PES), will take place on the morning of 12 February. The system of alternation should be preserved, with the result that - unless there is a dramatic change - the next President will be Mr Tzitzikostas, and then, after two and a half years, Mr Cordeira. (PH)