Here is the latest challenge for the chairwoman of the European Commission in this difficult first year of its second term. On Monday, the German politician will have to appear in Strasbourg on the debate on her leadership, and three days later MEPs will vote in this matter.
This is the first time in over a decade, when the head of the committee faces such a movement. At this stage, voting is mainly symbolic – Most political groups have already signaled that they would vote against the vote distrust – But he emphasizes the anger growing in Brussels after a series of controversial moves and scandals.
If the application for a vote of no confidence was accepted, This would give up the entire committee and launching the complex process of appointing 27 new European Commissioners.
Robert Metsool, chairwoman of the European Parliament, announced the schedule to political group leaders on Wednesday evening. The debate, during which von der Leyen will perform, was scheduled for Monday. Then it will take place A discussion in which political group leaders will express their views.
Gheorghe Piperea, a right -wing MEP from Romania, applied for a vote of distrust, having gathered a sufficient number of signatures last week. In this way, he wants to express their indignation because of the secret text messages of von der Leyen from 2021 with Albert Bourla, general director of the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Giant. They concerned Delivery of vaccines to Europe at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although some members of the European People's Party and European conservatives and reformers withdrew their support under the pressure of their own ranks, And so it was possible to collect 72 signatures necessary to accept the application. However, despite the recent political turmoil (socialists and liberals, they accuse von der Leyen of allying with the extreme right in order to weaken ecological reforms) the central majority of the EU, which supported her bosses, does not want to support this initiative.
