On Thursday 30 November, the European Green Party (‘EGP’) revealed the names of the four people it hopes will represent the European green family at the European elections in June 2024.
The candidates are (in alphabetical order): - Dutchman Bas Eickhout, currently an MEP, nominated by the GroenLinks party; - the Latvian Elīna Pinto, who was a candidate in the Latvian presidential elections, nominated by Progresīvie; - the German Terry Reintke, currently co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, nominated by Bündnis 90/Die Grünen; - Italian Benedetta Scuderi, co-spokesperson for the ‘Young European Greens’.
The candidates will introduce themselves to party supporters at an online conference on Saturday 2 December. They have until 7 January to gather the support of at least five additional member parties.
At an electoral congress in Lyon from 2 to 4 February 2024, the EGP wants to appoint two co-candidates to head the list (‘co-Spitzenkandidaten’) - either one woman and one man, or two women - to represent it next June. In 2019, Mr Eickhout and Germany’s Ska Keller formed the winning duo. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)