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    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...
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    other parties for Weber as candidate for President of the Commission (Spitzenkandidat). After initial deadlock, the European Council decided to nominate...
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    89,8 Prozent EU-Spitzenkandidat". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2024-01-03. "FPÖ: Harald Vilimsky als Spitzenkandidat für EU-Wahl am 9...
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    Angela Merkel as Spitzenkandidat for the party At their 2018 Congress in Helsinki, the EPP elected Manfred Weber as their Spitzenkandidat for President of...
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  • politics, the person at the head of an electoral list is called the Spitzenkandidat ("lead candidate"). By convention, this means that this person (normally...
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    in particular, or at least someone from that political family – the Spitzenkandidat principle, below – but this is a convention, not an obligation). That...
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  • In politics, a lead candidate (German: Spitzenkandidat; Dutch: lijsttrekker, lit. 'list puller') is the leader of a political party in an election to...
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    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...
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    attempted in the form of the spitzenkandidat process, although in 2019 the European Council rejected the Spitzenkandidat of the leading party, and instead...
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    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...
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    the party elected as its President Manfred Weber, who was also EPP's Spitzenkandidat in 2019. The EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament...
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    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...
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    elections, some of them designate their preferred candidate (known as Spitzenkandidat or lead candidate) to be the next President of the European Commission...
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    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...
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  • Italian David-Maria Sassoli, and the conservative SCR had the Czech Spitzenkandidat Jan Zahradil. "The EU After The Elections: A More Plural Parliament...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    of the internal election into the dominant European party known as "spitzenkandidat"). While the European People's Party had won the European Parliament...
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    candidate, or Spitzenkandidat, for the presidency of the Commission in the 2014 elections. This marked the first time that the Spitzenkandidat process was...
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    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...
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    least popular politicians nationally. The CSU's Manfred Weber was the Spitzenkandidat for the European People's Party in the 2019 European Parliament election...
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    Borrell (centre) with PES Spitzenkandidat Frans Timmermans and Pedro Sánchez in January 2019...
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    idiots".” In response to the political ad campaign, Manfred Weber, Spitzenkandidat of the EPP demanded Orbán apologize for and renounce the criticism...
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    Vegetarier wurde". 28 April 2019. Teresa Havlicek (16 August 2012), FDP-Spitzenkandidat in Niedersachsen: Der leise Liberale Die Tageszeitung. Media related...
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    Focus Online. 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2019-11-19. tagesschau.de. "AfD-Spitzenkandidat Robert Lambrou im hr-Sommerinterview". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved...
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    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...
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    s-maximilian-krah-19673803.html Die Welt: Jetzt gerät auch der AfD-Spitzenkandidat in den China-Sumpf, 23. April 2024, https://www.welt...
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    "Bernd Lucke. The Protestant". Retrieved 22 January 2024. "Torsten Jung Spitzenkandidat der FREIEN WÄHLER Niedersachsen". Retrieved 22 January 2024. "Neue...
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    October 2021. @EuropeElects (16 May 2019). "Estonia: E200's national spitzenkandidat ("top candidate") in the European election tells @EuropeElects that...
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    11 September 2000. Retrieved 1 November 2015. "Frank Steffel: CDU-Spitzenkandidat fragt Schabowski um Rat" (in German). Tagesspiegel. 8 August 2001....
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