French MEP Valérie Hayer will become the new president of Renew Europe with “overwhelming consensus” after current interim President Malik Azamni failed to gather enough support following widespread worries about his party’s involvement with coalition talks with the far-right in the Netherlands, Euractiv learnt.
Though the formal election will be on Thursday (24 January) at 8 am, hers is the only official candidacy. As such, she will be elected by acclamation, just like her predecessor Stéphane Séjourné, who left the group’s presidency to become France’s new foreign affairs minister.
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[Edited by Nathalie Weatherald]
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