While most political groups in the European Parliament do not support von der Leyen’s no confidence vote against the European Commission, even those from the coalition that took her in office last year have denounced her leaders, with some groups splitting into ways of voting.
After the debate held at Hemicile on Monday, some of the eight groups in Congress clearly bet their position before the vote, while others are more vague and not all MEPs are in line with the group.
The political forces of the European People’s Party (EPP), Ursula von der Leyen, are behind her. “We’re unanimously voting,” said Manfred Weber, the group’s chairman.
The EPP portrayed the vote as emanating from the far-right MEP that is friendly to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This rebuke move has left us wasted time. Putin will be happy with what his friends are doing here. I know that the German AFD (German Alternative) and the Romanian AUR (Alliance for Romanian Unity) are Putin’s dolls.
Leyen’s criticism of the Fon on display
Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Renewal Europe and Green/EFA Group said they would not vote for the blame, but it didn’t stop their chairs, but it didn’t stop their chairs.
“This allegation will not count on votes in favour of my group. I won’t vote once for anyone who wants to destroy the European Union,” S&D leader Iratxe García Pérez described the allegations of condemnation as a “reactionary attack.”
However, Garcia Perez also accused Von del Reyen of turning it into a green deal when he allied with conservatives to withdraw the commission’s controversial order on green claims aimed at dealing with greenwashing.
Moreover, not supporting the allegation is not necessarily equivalent to the pledge that socialists oppose it. Members of the group could also abstain from the council, according to sources in the council.
“We haven’t decided yet. We’ll discuss the issue the day before the vote,” S&D Belgium’s MEP Ester Salemans told Euroneuz after an internal group meeting.
The European Update also clearly stated that it opposes the rebuke move. “The move itself shows the signatories’ bad intentions: misshmash in allegations regarding Pfizer’s text message, spending on recovery facilities, defense plans, interference that appears to be election interference,” the group’s statement read.
Updated Europe’s President Valerie Heyer doubled this during the intervention, but she also got the chance to swipe at von der Leyen. “The committee is too centralized and too fossilized,” she said.
The Greens/EFA group will refuse a motion to condemn it, so that all MEPs will not vote, abstain or refrain from voting on the day of the vote, according to internal sources.
Group leader Bas Eickhout called the motion “one of the big political shows on the far right to undermine democracy.” However, he also denounced the recent bond over the vote between the EPP and the far right. “You’re feeding that beast, and at one moment the beast eats you,” Eick said, seeing a glance at Epp’s President Weber.
Left co-president Martin Sherwa said his group is against the rebuke move as he refuses to be “equipped by right-wing extremists.” However, the other people in the group do not appear to be on the same page. For example, the Italian Five Star Movement votes in favor of “millions of citizens who believe in the EU, democracy and social justice today ask us to send von del Reyen home.” According to Parliamentary sources, the Irish MEP on the left will also vote in favor.
Conservatives split on the vote at United on the far right
European conservatives and reformists (ECRs) have shown that this unstable group is becoming more clearly dynamic. Some of its members have proposed and actively promoted a vote of confidence, while others have been set to protect the committee.
Officially, the group leaves lawmakers and to follow their conscience in free votes, the largest national delegation is in the opposite camp.
The Romanians of the Ultra Nationalist Party are among the signatories of Law and Justice (PIS) AUR and Polish (PIS) in the rebuke movement, consistently consistent with a long tradition of harsh criticism of von der Reyen and her university.
On the other side, members of the Italian brothers will not vote in favor of this motion as they will involve the resignation of all commissioners, including Italian Rafaelle Fit, the vice-president of the committee on unity and reform that comes from the party’s ranks.
“The allegations are destined to fail and do not even approach the necessary threshold (to defeat the committee), which is a gift to our political enemy,” ECR co-chair Nicola Procaccini said during the intervention.
The Sovereign Countries Europe (ESN), two radically correct groups of European Patriots (PFE) and Parliament, demand that the committee resign and vote in favor of the motion.
“Pfizergate was an abuse of power. You acted alone within a democratic framework,” said Fabrice Legali, the French national assembly MEP, Essun leader from the German alternative, René Aust, whose group was planning to send Von del Reyen to the endless old man.”
Iconic vote
A lack of confidence is unlikely to be approved as at least two-thirds of the voting cast, which represent the majority of all MEPs, must support a denunciation move to recruit.
However, Monday’s discussion shows the level of distrust of von der Leyen in Parliament, regardless of MEP’s political affiliation.
The parties to the so-called “centristic majority” (EPP, S&D, Updated Europe) are divided into evaluations of the committee’s performance to date.
The EPP group is fully supportive of von der Reyen’s political line (probably behind it), but socialists and liberals are at odds with it, indicating that the coalition that von der Reyen voted for as president of the commission a year ago is in a precarious land.
In this regard, S&D leader García Pérez spoke to EPP President Weber at the end of her intervention.
A vote on the 10 allegation on Thursday will likely testify to the level of dissatisfaction. A large number of abstaining may save the commissioner’s head, but at the same time gives von der Reyen a political body.
