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...Josep Borrell, a former foreign minister under Mr Sánchez, is the EU’s top diplomat, while Luis de Guindos, economy minister in a previous Spanish centre right government, is vice-president of the European...
...Earlier, Luís Marques Mendes, a former PSD leader, told SIC television that the party’s decision to vote alongside the “extreme left” in the committee stage had been “disastrous”....
...Mr Centeno is a president by accident rather than design....
...Mr Centeno is the frontrunner — with formal backing from Spain’s Luis de Guindos and indications of support from Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. But diplomats caution the race is unpredictable....
...Spain’s Luis de Guindos should be a shoo-in for the role and Bloomberg reports Ireland is also eyeing one of the other three top ECB executive board jobs scheduled to become vacant over the next 18 months...
...Finance minister Mário Centeno attributes much of Portugal’s recovery to this “real restoration of earnings” as part of an anti-austerity platform....
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