08/04/24 (Agence Europe) – Giorgia Meloni, President of the Italian Council and of the ECR party, revealed that her party might put forward a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, during the Porta a Porta programme, broadcast on Thursday 4 April on the Rai 1 television channel. “Ms von der Leyen is the candidate of the European People’s Party, I am the president of the European conservatives, and the conservatives could also have their own candidate for the Commission presidency, which is a decision we have yet to take”, she stated (see EUROPE 13385/13). She recalled that her party, Fratelli d’Italia, had not voted to support Ursula von der Leyen in 2019. “The Commission has made many mistakes and, in my opinion, many of the victories the President is talking about today represent a change of course”, she added. (AD)