So welcome to this special coverage of the vote for the European Union next Commission President you had said governments have nominated to germanys fonda lion she needs a simple majority of any piece to be confirmed in the position the commission is the executive proposing the new laws and implementing decisions the Commission President plays a key role in deciding the bloc future and direction. Fons alliance nomination has been the controversial anteater blues of Brussels Bureau chief knocks off one at the European Parliament in strasburg and Political Correspondent simon a young here theyre here to talk us through the arguments so welcome both so lets start with you max hoffman in strasburg i am told that the voting has now finished counting is underway how do you rate on the lines chances. Well we just said those boxes going past us here and thats where the fate of the line is so as you said the voting is done now begins the counting so we want to know what those crucial players vo
Has the job i think she doesnt start until november what does she do next. Shes going to give a press conference later but i think today she might celebrate with a little sparkling water because thats her way to celebrate. Because its a close confident we can say that right david but alister hes obviously from the European Peoples Party so the same party as. Also the head of the Foreign Affairs committee and i guess on d. W. Frequently i saw you hugging. Earlier after a victory how do you feel. This was a very moving moment not only for us in a funny line but for many including myself i know it was a fun time now for nearly 20 years we started off political korea together in the Regional Parliament of the designs and and shes just a convincing european and shes a convinced european we all knew it would be close we all knew it would be a how to take which wouldnt be easy and now we can look forward theres a lot of work now in front of us. Today coming from the same region as those left
There was much better from a knowledge point of view today and she will have to continue that if she wants to be ready and fall. You talked. Max about the speech that was your fund that i gave to the European Parliament in which she essentially appealed to the center left and the center right and nor did the extremes are they going to prove difficult for her if she is she going to going to be having a go at her from from the from the periphery as it were. It appears that they already had a go it heard today that we believe that at least why she has this very slim majority although many are expected her to have a large majority with the help of the votes of the socalled e. C. Our group which is a right wing youre a skeptical party but that was enough another line in that press conference shes giving at the moment here in stroudsburg said that a majority is a majority and i came people didnt know me so shes so some understanding i think shes just happy right now that she really was elect
A man on the move. And the fight to combat the spread of each i v a as we report from south africa tonight on signs of progress in the battle against the disease. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome to today members of the European Parliament made history by electing the 1st woman to be European Commission president germanys outgoing defense minister ursula fund a lion is now president elect of the e. U. Commission will succeed. In the top job after being voted in by a very narrow margin of just 9 votes. Will be the 1st woman to serve as commission president. And she has promised a unified and strong europe saying that she will work pragmatically to get things done. I feel so all notes and im overwhelmed and i thank you for the trust you placed in me here the trust you placed in me is confidence you placed in europe your confidence in the united and a strong europe from east to west from south to north your confidence in a europ
A good job and germany and why should i expect that she will do a good job vs the commissions present the higher european politics our domestic politics. So. It was a lot of fun to line his clothes jobs in germany about harriet ministration of the office and the Defense Ministry she wants to build a centralized undemocratic update seems full of communism. And coming up later tonight we take you to the launch pad where 50 years ago today she man of these greatest journey began. To. Walk upright. Army. On to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the woman whose election victory today wrote history here in europe the german conservative politician ursula funder lion today became the 1st woman ever to be elected president of the European Commission members of the European Parliament elected her by a very slim margin it may be hard to believe but fundal ions candidacy began just 2 weeks ago she emerged only after the 1st 2 candid