EP puts off Fitto vote to date to be determined

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 12 - The European Parliament on Tuesday postponed to "a date to be determined later" a vote on confirming the appointment of Italy's Raffaele Fitto as one of the new executive vice presidents of the European Commission, with the cohesion brief.
    The coordinators of the EP's Regional Affairs Committee opted for a postponement to a "date to be determined" for the evaluation of Fitto's Tuesday hearing, parliamentary sources told ANSA.
    Fitto, a heavyweight in Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and hitherto European Affairs, South and Cohesion Minister in her government, told the parliament earlier in the day that he would not represent the FdI or Italy but the whole of Europe.
    The FdI didn't vote in favour of Ursula von der Leyen's confrmation as EC chief nor for the NextGeneration programme, but Fitto said if the latter vote were repeated they would now do so. (ANSA).