On 12 June, 419 congress participants will elect the next president of the Party of European Socialists (PES) for a term running until early 2018. The choice is between outgoing President Sergei Stanishev, former prime minister of Bulgaria and MEP since 2014, and Enrique Baron Crespo, former president of the European Parliament and leader of the Socialist group in the EP.
It is said that there are two ways to run a European political party: to provide coordination of national…