, the topjob, or is it frans timmins, the lead candidate for the ce ntre—left, the lead candidate for and he's been hearing a lot of work to build a coalition of progressive parties. just the centre—left but the greens and the liberals, do they throw their weight behind him? and parliament's position their weight behind him? and pa rliament‘s position is their weight behind him? and parliament's position is he has the best chance to lead the commission and he has the best call on that job. tomorrow on tuesday, there's a meeting of eu leaders, a special summit, where they will come to their own interpretation of what these results mean and what it means for the process of appointing the president of the commission, a foreign policy chief and then further down the line a president of the european council. in the next few days we will see and arms race between the european parliament and the leaders of the individual countries over who gets those top jobs. they are importantjobs, they might not be household names across the eu with members of the public, but the person in charge of the e

tara do you think that mist of a about mr timmins there have really understood the message they got from european voters well my it's been a mixed message but as you can see from them neither of them were certainly crowing with pride about the results of their of their parties although our friends to romans did very well in the netherlands and in fact he came out on top there in what many are calling calling a surprise victory but it is true that these 2 men who are in charge of 2 of the major political groups are going to have to realize that voters have told them that they want other parties i mean not only has there been a populist increase in many places but the greens the climate change is going to have to top the agenda as many voters have said let's that's also something that has been mentioned by one of the other candidates for european commission president margaret divest the let's listen to what she says that monopoly of power is broken and this is of course why we can do something else and i very much appreciated my colleagues trying to malign just that that a coalition can be