FILE PHOTO: Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell attends a news conference during the Southern EU Countries summit at Filoxenia Conference centre in Nicosia, Cyprus January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting foreign minister Josep Borrell gave up his newly won European Parliament seat on Wednesday to remain in the Socialist administration at home and stay in the running for a senior job in the EU executive, sources said.
Wednesday was the deadline for members of European Parliament to choose between their EU mandates and other posts, and Socialist party sources said Borrell, 72, would stay on as minister.
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