Baier, the current party chairman with little European experience, was the only contender. He was elected in a closed assembly in Slovenia.
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00:00 The European left chooses an almost unknown leading candidate for the European elections
00:06 in June at a closed assembly in Slovenia. Austrian Walter Bayer, the party`s current
00:12 president, has never been an MEP and is virtually unknown in European politics.
00:19 Frankly speaking, Europe is not only Brussels. Europe is 27 nations and it is hundreds of
00:28 cities and it is millions of citizens. And the European left and the spitzenkandidat
00:34 wants to be the voice of these people of which the voices are very rarely heard in Brussels.
00:41 Bayer will compete with candidates such as the current president of the European Commission,
00:46 Ursula von der Leyen, or the socialist Nikola Schmidt.
00:49 But the electoral prospects for the left are not looking good. The party comes into the
00:55 European elections highly divided.
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