Janusz Lewandowski, the European commissioner for financial programming and budget, has confirmed that he will be a candidate in the European Parliament elections for the centre-right Civic Platform (PO) party of Donald Tusk, the prime minister.
Lewandowski, who was an MEP in 2004-09, will head the party’s list of candidates in Pomerania, which includes Gdan?sk, his home town, traditionally a PO stronghold. He will take unpaid leave from the Commission from 17 April to 25 May.
Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, has been put at the top of the list of candidates for the European Parliament elections from Luxembourg’s centre-right CSV party. The six names on the list include current MEPs Georges Bach and Frank Engel, but Astrid Lulling, who has been an MEP since 1989, is not seeking re-election. Also absent is Jean-Claude Juncker, the centre-right’s candidate for European Commission president.
Other European commissioners who have already declared their intention to be candidates in the Parliament elections are Olli Rehn (economic and monetary affairs and the euro), Karel De Gucht (trade), and Maroš Šefc?ovic? (administration and inter-institutional relations).
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Michel Barnier (internal market and services) will not stand now that he has lost out to Juncker in the contest to be the centre-right’s candidate for Commission president.
Simon Taylor