(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 12 - The European Parliament on Tuesday postponed to "a date to be determined later" a vote on confirming the appointment of Italy's Raffaele Fitto as one of the new executive vice presidents of the European Commission, with the cohesion brief.
    The coordinators of the EP's Regional Affairs Committee opted for a postponement to a "date to be determined" for the evaluation of Fitto's Tuesday hearing, parliamentary sources told ANSA.
    Fitto, a heavyweight in Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and hitherto European Affairs, South and Cohesion Minister in her government, told the parliament earlier in the day that he would not represent the FdI or Italy but the whole of Europe.
    The FdI didn't vote in favour of Ursula von der Leyen's confrmation as EC chief nor for the NextGenerationEU programme, but Fitto said if the latter vote were repeated they would now do so.
    The EP also decided to indefinitely postpone a decision on the nomination of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as new High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, EP sources said.
    Previously, EP sources said the confirmations would probably be postponed until Wednesday.
    The decisions have now been put off to a later date pending "mediation" by EC chief von der Leyen, the sources said.
    Centre-left Italian opposition Democratic Party (PD) MEP Dario Nardella, the former two-time mayor of Florence, reiterated that their Socialists and Democrats (S&D) caucus would voice "strong perplexity" about making a European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) representative that voted against von der Leyen an EC vice president. (ANSA).