For the first time, prior to the 2014 election presidential candidates were nominated. This enabled them to present election programmes and campaign for the position (the EPP campaign bus of Jean-Claude Juncker depicted).
The Spitzenkandidat process (German for 'lead candidate') is the method of linking the choice of President of the Commission to the outcome of the European Parliament elections, by having each major European Political Party (not to be confused with the Political groups of the European Parliament) nominating their candidate for Commission President prior to the Parliamentary elections. The Spitzenkandidat of the largest party (or the one able to secure the support of a majority coalition) would then have a mandate to assume the Commission Presidency. This process was first run in 2014, and its legitimacy was contested by some of the members of the European Council (with the UK and Hungarian Prime Ministers voting against the nomination of the EPP's Spitzenkandidat Jean Claude Juncker).
The Spitzenkandidat process (German for 'lead candidate') is the method of linking the choice of President of the Commission to the outcome of the European...
other parties for Weber as candidate for President of the Commission (Spitzenkandidat). After initial deadlock, the European Council decided to nominate...
Angela Merkel as Spitzenkandidat for the party At their 2018 Congress in Helsinki, the EPP elected Manfred Weber as their Spitzenkandidat for President of...
politics, the person at the head of an electoral list is called the Spitzenkandidat ("lead candidate"). By convention, this means that this person (normally...
89,8 Prozent EU-Spitzenkandidat". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2024-01-03. "FPÖ: Harald Vilimsky als Spitzenkandidat für EU-Wahl am 9...
in particular, or at least someone from that political family – the Spitzenkandidat principle, below – but this is a convention, not an obligation). That...
attempted in the form of the spitzenkandidat process, although in 2019 the European Council rejected the Spitzenkandidat of the leading party, and instead...
In politics, a lead candidate (German: Spitzenkandidat; Dutch: lijsttrekker, lit. 'list puller') is the leader of a political party in an election to...
position of President of the European Commission and was elected as the Spitzenkandidat of the EPP on 8 November. On 26 May 2019 Weber's European People's...
ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 24 April 2024. "Maximilian Krah: Das ist der AfD-Spitzenkandidat für die EU". ZDFheute (in German). 29 July 2023. Retrieved 24 April...
the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), he is the EU-wide Spitzenkandidat of the centre-left PES at the 2024 EU elections. He was previously...
the European People's Party. On 8 November 2018, Stubb lost in EPP's Spitzenkandidat election against Manfred Weber, the group leader for the European People's...
People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European parliament elections. Ursula...
of the internal election into the dominant European party known as "spitzenkandidat"). While the European People's Party had won the European Parliament...
elections, some of them designate their preferred candidate (known as Spitzenkandidat or lead candidate) to be the next President of the European Commission...
election in Berlin-Steglitz. He was 83. He was the top “list candidate” ("Spitzenkandidat") for the “Party of Democratic Socialism” (PDS), the name by which...
least popular politicians nationally. The CSU's Manfred Weber was the Spitzenkandidat for the European People's Party in the 2019 European Parliament election...
idiots".” In response to the political ad campaign, Manfred Weber, Spitzenkandidat of the EPP demanded Orbán apologize for and renounce the criticism...
der Leyen for a second term of office and put her forward as their "Spitzenkandidat" while the PES put forward Nicolas Schmit. Until 2014, turnout dropped...
Vegetarier wurde". 28 April 2019. Teresa Havlicek (16 August 2012), FDP-Spitzenkandidat in Niedersachsen: Der leise Liberale Die Tageszeitung. Media related...
especially among MEPs, since the European Council ignored the so-called spitzenkandidat system when choosing her for the position. On 16 July 2019, the European...
"Bernd Lucke. The Protestant". Retrieved 22 January 2024. "Torsten Jung Spitzenkandidat der FREIEN WÄHLER Niedersachsen". Retrieved 22 January 2024. "Neue...
november 2023. (in German)Ecolo Ostbelgien nominiert Shqiprim Thaqi als Spitzenkandidat für Europawahlen, Grenzecho, 6 december 2023. Vakbondsman Rudi Kennes...
political party list. On 25 November 2018, Varoufakis was chosen as a Spitzenkandidat for DiEM25 in the 2019 European Parliament elections. Affiliated parties...
Europe group and therefore as one of the frontrunners to be ALDE's Spitzenkandidat for the European Commission's presidency. She has also been linked...
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