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Weber elected president of centre-right EPP party
By EUobserver
German MEP Manfred Weber was elected president of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest political family in Europe, at their congress in Rotterdam on Tuesday. Weber has been leading the party's group in the European Parliament and he has received 447 votes out of a possible 502. He succeeds former Polish prime minister and ex-president of the European Council, Donald Tusk.