As announced, PES-affiliated Hungarian Kata Tüttő was elected head of the European Committee of the Regions on Thursday 20 February for the next two and a half years of a five-year mandate (see EUROPE B13570A14).
Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (EPP, Spanish), President of the Spanish region of Andalusia, was elected First Vice-President of the CoR and, under a political agreement, the PES will hand over the presidency to the EPP halfway through the mandate. Barring election to another post...