The next Commission president could therefore be former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, as he knows the place, is well-connected and… What? Too soon? Okay then, how about bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? He’s got a lot of qualities that would make him well-suited to the role: experience in politics, speaking more than one EU language, thinking U.S. President Donald Trump is a fool, and if you disagree with him, he could beat you to a pulp. Hard power, not soft power!
There are two strong candidates for health commissioner. The first one may be down to recency bias, but it’s hard to ignore the results: Nana Kwaku Bonsam.
The Ghanaian, who describes himself as “the most powerful spiritualist in the whole world,” claimed to have “cursed” England football captain Harry Kane before the Ghana vs. England match in the World Cup. Lo and behold, Kane (and his teammates) were as toothless as most European Council conclusions in a 0-0 draw. Bonsam also claimed to have been behind Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo’s knee injury at the 2014 tournament.
Imagine how great he would be at, say, cursing Russian President Vladimir Putin or rolling out a mass vaccination program?
Bonsam’s main competition for the role is Didier Raoult, the controversial French physician who held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in the early days of Covid-19.
Raoult attracted attention for touting the use of an antimalarial drug as a treatment for the coronavirus and looking like an old hippy, maybe one who played synth in a mid-1970s band called something like Le Syndicat des Nuages Inutiles or Camembert sur Mars.