Ingrida Udre, a Latvian who is nominated as commissioner for taxation, is also seen as unacceptably Eurosceptic by some in the parliament.Mr Barroso might prefer it if the relevant governments simply withdrew their nominees and sent him new candidates.
With the exception of Harriet Miers – the quickly withdrawn George W Bush nominee – the last supreme court nominee older than 55 was Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993.
On Monday, Sen. Patrick Leahy said that the former DNC header and fellow Vermont Democrat would be the ideal candidate to take the spot of recently withdrawn HHS nominee, Tom Daschle.
As neither man won an absolute majority, a run-off is to be held on November 21st.After the Italian government bowed to demands by the European Parliament to withdraw its nominee to the European Commission, Rocco Buttiglione, the Latvian government followed suit, replacing Ingrida Udre with Andris Piebalgs.
The announcement came hours after Nancy Killefer withdrew as nominee for Chief Performance Officer for similar reasons.
issued a warning to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: Withdraw your nominee for U.S. Department of Agriculture chief scientist, Sam Clovis, or prepare for an all-out fight to sink his nomination.
The Governor of Alaska recently had to withdraw a nominee for a judicial post because photos of him in a leopard-skin-patterned Speedo and a cowboy hat, surrounded by women in bikinis, surfaced.
President-elect George W. Bush clearly approved of Linda Chavez's announcement that she was withdrawing as his nominee for secretary of labor.
The company said on Thursday that it was ending its proxy fight to control the PeopleSoft board by withdrawing its slate of nominees to the board because the litigation would extend beyond the PeopleSoft stockholders' meeting on March 25.
Fewer than half the nominees withdrew their names.
