went out to a german politician who has set his sights on the european union's highest office today the european parliament conservative blog elected monfort weber's as their lead candidate to run for the job of commission president he's now the front runner to take over from john claude younger in many ways he is a surprise choice not only does he have little government experience he is also a staunch conservative. a german heading up the european commission that prospect came a step closer to reality this afternoon manfred vevo will be the lead candidate for the european conservatives in next year's euro elections the berrien conservative veteran won a decisive victory over his finnish rival alexander stubb. when you're elected with nearly eighty percent of the vote it puts you in a strong position to take on the responsibility of the want to make people an offer that we have a clear idea of where we want to lead europe watching us this favors platform is