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Should the European Parliament Appoint Juncker's Commission?

Should the EP appoint Juncker’s Commission? The vote of the MEPs The current College of Commissioners led by Jean-Claude Juncker has been elected by the European Parliament on the 22nd October 2014 (few months after the European elections). More than 60% of MEPs supported the new Commission, although the positive votes mostly came from the three centrist groups in the European Parliament: the European people’s Party, the Liberals and the Social Democrats. Instead, all the other groups in the European Parliament voted against the appointment of the new College of Commissioners, apart from ECR, which was split among MEPs voting in favour, the ones voting against and the several abstentions. Likewise, also MEPs from Czechia gave the green light to the election of Juncker’s Commission. In fact, all the MEPs from ANO 2011, the Czech Social Democratic Party, TOP 09 and Christian Democratic Union– Czechoslovak People's Party supported the new Commission. Outright opposition only came from the DISTRIBUTION OF CZECH POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN 2016 Communists and the Party of Free European Citizens. Instead, the Civic Democratic Conservatives Party was split: Jan Zahradil voted European and against the new Commission, whereas Reformists : United Left- ODS Nordic Evzen Tosenovsky abstained. Green Left: KSČM European People's Party: TOP09, STAN, KDU–ČSL Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats: ČSSD Should the EP appoint Juncker’s Commission? The vote of MEPs elected in Czech Republic* For Dita CHARANZOVÁ Martina DLABAJOVÁ Petr JEŽEK Pavel TELIČKA Luděk NIEDERMAYER Stanislav POLČÁK ANO 2011 ANO 2011 ANO 2011 ANO 2011 Top 09 and Mayors Mayors and Independents ALDE ALDE ALDE ALDE EPP EPP Jiří POSPÍŠIL Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ Jaromír ŠTĚTINA Pavel SVOBODA Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Jan KELLER Christian and Democratic Union – Christian and Democratic Union – Christian and Democratic Union – Top 09 and Mayors Czechoslovak People's Party Top 09 and Mayors Czechoslovak People's Party Czechoslovak People's Party Czech Social Democratic Party EPP EPP EPP EPP EPP S&D Pavel POC Miroslav POCHE Olga SEHNALOVÁ Czech Social Democratic Party Czech Social Democratic Party Czech Social Democratic Party S&D S&D S&D Against Jan ZAHRADIL Petr MACH Kateřina KONEČNÁ Jiří MAŠTÁLKA Communist Party of Bohemia and Communist Party of Bohemia and Civic Democratic Party Party of Free Citizens Moravia Moravia ECR EFDD GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ Abstain Civic Democratic Party ECR Miloslav RANSDORF Didn't vote Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia GUE/NGL *Source : Jacques Delors Institute / Data : www.votewatch.eu .

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