A few PES grassroot activists have launched http://a-new-president.eu/, a web site calling for a new EU commission president.

“We need a new majority in the European Parliament”, says the baseline. It may help indeed for a new president.

The website offers a petition to sign, to be sent to PES officials.

“The European Parliament will elect the next European Commission. We, the voters on June 7 do not only decide the composition of the European Parliament, we also decide upon the driving seat of the EU: The European Commission. The composition of the executive EU body – the European Commission – has to reflect the vote of us EU citizens on June 7.

We call for the PES to build a new progressive majority with a strong Commission President.

We demand respect for our democratic rights! We demand that the Presidency of the European Council makes sure that the European Governments nominate a Commission President that reflects the majority in the European Parliament.”

Due to continuing abnormal patterns of traffic from Portuguese IP addresses we have had to resort to a limited service here at Anyone But Barroso – essentially a basic Wordpress theme and no more for the moment. We’re investigating precisely what’s up together with the hosting firm.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but it’s a lot less of an inconvenience than having Barroso back for a second term will be!

This website has about 35mb of web files, and has used about 2Gb of bandwidth each of the last couple of months. So it was a complete surprise when the site had already used more than 3Gb of data in May already – in 9 days. So who are all of these visitors? See the extract from the stats above – 6 Portuguese IP addresses that have been visiting the site incessantly.

Some allies of Mr Barroso’s that don’t like our campaign?