"I don't engage in controversy because it's not necessary, center-right voters don't want controversy, belonging to different European families is a fact, we are the EPP and there is no government agreement that obliges us to be part of the same European family. This is not the time for controversy, when the election results are in we will see what will happen. I am convinced that the EPP will win the elections and the treaty says that the heads of state and government entrust the role of president of the Commission to be put to the vote of Parliament based on the election result".
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this at the presentation of the book 'Nazione Europa' by Claudio Tito in Rome, together with the author and European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni.
"It's the numbers that decide, it's not a question of Le Pen or not Le Pen. We are the EPP and we don't go with Le Pen and the AfD, we are pro-Europeans and we are for NATO, we follow our path and we don't engage in controversy with Nobody".
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