David Sassoli: "I renounce my candidacy as president of the EU Parliament"
"I sacrifice - he explains - for the pro-European majority"
David Sassoli will not run again for the presidency of the EU Parliament. "I do not want to divide the pro-European majority", he explained, adding that he is now "committed to strengthening a coalition that, with the popular, liberals and us socialists, has made it possible to obtain extraordinary results".
The negotiations on the Stability Pact are still standing. The president of the Strasbourg Assembly stresses that having shared debt was “a success.” Sassoli also recalls that this year the chair of the Sakharov Prize will be empty because the winner, the Russian opponent Alexei Navalnyj, is in prison . "An example of exceptional courage - recalls the president - His persistent campaign against corruption of Vladimir Putin's regime testifies to a strenuous defense of democratic values".
(Unioneonline / ss)
