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European People's Party ( PEE) Founded in 1976 , the EPP political family is the center-right consists of 73 games in 39 countries . Today, more are the force representation in the EP , with a total of 265 MEPs. The Popular Party and Democratic Union of Catalonia Spanish are part of this game.
The November 12 Joseph Daul was elected by 112 votes to 124 new president of the EPP. On his appointment expressed its commitment to launch an EU -wide campaign led by a common candidate who has been designated by the Congress of Dublin on 7 and 8 March 2014 . This is the president of the Eurogroup, Luxembourg's Jean -Claude Juncker , one of the most notorious names have from the beginning.
• European Socialists ( PES) In November 2011 the European Socialists, the second largest party , agreed on a program for the selection of its candidate for president of the European Commission. Finally , this November , the conference of the European Socialist Party met in Brussels to formally elect its candidate, Martin Schulz.
Although it was established that candidates 1 to October 31 , they had to have the support of at least 15% of the members of the PSE to face a primary process on December 1 , be submitted at no more candidates have filed , as Schulz explained himself, he will be a candidate for this match.
Note the importance of the choice of Schulz , since in 2004 he was elected President of the European Socialist group and from January 17, 2012 holds the presidency of the European Parliament.
European socialists have today in the European Parliament , under the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats , with 184 deputies.
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE ) ALDE was founded in 1976 , before the first European elections and is constituted as transnational party in 1993 .
ALDE President Guy Verhofstadt , one that sounded more like a candidate for the Commission , has been chosen by this alliance. Prior to his appointment he said he was convinced that their candidate be a " committed liberal, a European committed and passionate about Europe" .
ALDE has a total of 57 European political parties , including the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia Spanish and Liberal Democratic Centre included . They currently have 84 seats , making them the third parliamentary force .
• Green Party EuropeoEl European Green Party, which belong EQUO and ICV Spanish , and is the fourth political force in Parliament, launched last November, the first pan-European open primaries in history, in which they have participated all supporters and members from age 16 through a platform that has allowed to vote until January 28 Europeans. Of this process have designated the two candidates left of the green to the presidency of the European Commission José Bové the French and German Ska Keller.
The reason that the party claims to have chosen this method to nominate candidates is that believes that Europe "needs to reconnect with citizens ."
Created in February 2004 in Rome, consists of 32 national green parties that currently have formed a coalition with the European Free Alliance , through which a total of 55 deputies.
• EuropeaEste Free Alliance party, regionalist and separatist ideology , has been represented in Parliament since the 1979 European elections , and is defined as a party that has over 30 years ' fighting for freedom , democracy and the right of peoples to decide their own future. " ERC members , CHA , PA , EA, BNG and BNV Spaniards. Still remains to be determined whether they will have a single candidate.
• Party of the European Left ( PIE) On 15 December, the leader of the Greek party SYRIZA , Alexis Tsipras was elected candidate of the Party of the European Left (PIE ) to the European Commission with the support of 84.1 % of delegates who attended the fourth congress of the organization. On the other hand , the same day the policy document training, backed with 93% of votes cast , and the programmatic document that the strategy for the European elections , which won the support of 86.4 discussed included % .
Following his election, Tsipras referred, was quoted by the agency Efe , a Europe " built by the hegemonic forces of right " which, in his opinion, " is not the Europe of peoples" , so the PIE must be the " counterforce against neoliberalism ', which has built " the Europe of the poor. "
PIE was born in May 2004 in Rome after an appeal in January of that year to the general left to join a European political party to demand 'other Europe'. Su Su immediate precedent is Europe European United Left parliamentary group - Nordic Green Left , which have now has 35 deputies .
The United Vella , the Communist Party and United Left Spanish are part of the European political party . The federal coordinator of IU, Cayo Lara , said the bid Tsipras serve to "denounce the undemocratic concept of the construction of the European Union '.
• European Democratic Party (EDP -EDP ) This European political party , center- and Christian inspiration , officially born in July 2004 with the signing of its charter in Rome. His two top drivers are Italian Francesco Rutelli centrist , who was mayor of Rome by Olivo between 1993 and 2001 , and the French liberal UDF François Bayrou . Its members are the Spanish parties PNV .
Earlier this December, the EDP held its congress in Rome under the slogan " Re-founding of Europe ', which claimed that Europe had" never been so needed as now ' and that, in turn , Europeans never had been " suspicious " as they are today. Hence arise as the party to protect " our democracy , our culture , and our jobs ."
Regarding the nomination of its candidate for the Commission , will take place in February 2014 , when the party holds its next congress .
So far the European parties belonging to the Spanish parties . Out of this list are the other European parties : the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists , the Movement for Europe of Freedom and Democracy, European Alliance for Freedom, EUD , the Political Movement Christian Europe and the Alliance of European National Movements .
