BRUSSELS - European leaders will try once again Thursday to agree on a compromise EU leader after political groups failed to unite behind a candidate.
Mr Tusk chairs EU leaders' summits and has set his colleagues the task of agreeing on a nominee to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission head. The parties, while working to draft a joint political programme, have not yet fallen behind a particular leader. POWER-SHARING DEAL "The person who is capable of gathering this double-majority has not yet emerged," a European diplomatic source told AFP on the eve of the meeting.
Finally, the Greens could share the job of presiding over the five-year parliament with the socialists, with each providing a speaker for two-and-a-half years.Even if the rumoured jobs break-down holds, it would remain to pick names, and Mr Tusk has promised to try and find posts for at least two women.
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