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Aide: Jean-Claude Juncker won’t step down over Brexit

Aide: Jean-Claude Juncker won’t step down over Brexit

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Jean-Claude Juncker and David Cameron had a "polite and friendly conversation" by phone Monday | Francois Lenoir/AFP via Getty Images

Aide: Jean-Claude Juncker won’t step down over Brexit

The Commission argues that its president worked hard to offer the UK new terms of membership of the EU.

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6/27/16, 2:26 PM CET

Updated 6/27/16, 4:39 PM CET

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will not step down over the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union, because “the Commission did not call a referendum,” his spokesperson told reporters in Brussels on Monday.

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek attempted to cast doubt on Juncker’s future by saying in a TV interview on Sunday that he didn’t see Juncker “as the right man for the job,” adding: “Someone in the EU maybe should contemplate quitting.”

Commission spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said the president “worked to create a fair deal” for the U.K. after Prime Minister David Cameron sought to renegotiate the terms of its EU membership to head off a Leave vote in the June 23 referendum.

“Let me refresh your memory that the Commission did not call a referendum, so the ones who have to draw conclusions from this are the ones who called the referendum,” Schinas said.

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“We worked to create the conditions for a fair deal which was unanimously accepted by all 28 members of the European Union in the European Council back in February, and then it was for the British people to decide.”

Since the U.K. voted for a Brexit last Thursday, Cameron has announced he will step down by October and more than half of the Labour shadow cabinet have quit and urged party leader Jeremy Corbyn to step down, citing concerns that he did not fight hard enough for a Remain vote.

Schinas said Cameron and Juncker had a “polite and friendly conversation” by phone Monday.

“It was a polite conversation where the British prime minister had the chance to thank the commissioner, the European Commission and our teams for all of the work that we put into this,” Schinas said. “The two of them are looking forward to talking on the margins of the EU summit.”

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