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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, faces a non-representation on a Covid 19-pandemy scandal that threatens her second-term political agenda.
The right-wing extremist legislators in the European Parliament claim that they have secured sufficient support for their application in which the resignation of the Commission was requested after an EU court had decided against their treatment of private messages with the CEO of a pharmaceutical.
While the Leyen will probably survive the vote that could take place next month, it can force them to make more compromises both left and the right to ensure their support.
The Romanian, right -wing extremist MP Ghorghe Piperea announced the Financial Times that he would launch the application on Thursday after collecting more than the necessary 72 signatures.
“The initiative is basically about maintaining transparency and ensuring a fair and real democratic process,” he said.
While the threshold for the triggering of a non-confidence vote is low, the fall of by the Leyen and for their commission would require more than two thirds of the MEPs present. The meeting has 720 members and 401 voted for them Become president A year ago she has alienated some since then.
Piperea claimed that some members of their own European People’s Party (EPP) support their initiative. However, he admitted that the chances of success were slim, but said that she was offering a “decisive opportunity for constructive and justified criticism of President Ursula von der Leyen.
“The Commission obliges to clear up concerns and give reasons.”
Non-confidence are rare, but can have serious consequences. In 1999 Jacques Santer’s team resigned due to allegations of fraud and a lack of transparency, even after winning a vote of trust. Since then there have been only four, none of them successful.
Piperea’s application is based on the so-called case of the Pfizerger against von der Leyen, but also criticizes her treatment of parliament, a complaint that is shared by centrists and left-wing MPs, which claim that it often deals with the directly selected institution of the block, and is to be adequately EU governments.
The EU Court of General in May Get ruled against the Commission In a struggle for the publication of text messages between von der Leyen and the Chief Executive Albert Bourla von Pfizer during the negotiations on the care of Covid vaccines in 2021.
The New York Times brought the case to disclose the news after the Leyen team had refused. The court rejected the Commission’s argument that it could not find it and had “violated the principle of good administration”.
“The court legally rejected the Commission and lacked credible justification,” said Piperea. “These measures show a persistent pattern of institutional overhaul, democratic disregard and erosion of public trust in the government’s government.”
Progressive MPs opened a new front last week when the Commission said that it intended to remove a law to intend to achieve a final agreement for this, the so-called Greenwashing-Ungefied-based environmental claims of corporate only a few days before the parliament and the Member States.
The law has become the latest lightning section for anti-Green mood in the block of that of the political group of Leyen’s own center-right group.
The socialists who are the second largest faction in parliament and liberal Renew, who are fifth, wrote a joint letter to parliament president Roberta Metsola on Wednesday, which she asked to obtain the matter on a summit on Thursday.
The parliament, they argue, must “be properly consulted in accordance with the principle of sincere cooperation” if a law is enlarged. “We also believe that the responsible commissioners should be called to the respective committees to explain their intentions.”
The Greens who supported the Leyen also attacked the move.
Some EU capitals have also expressed contradiction and argued that the deduction undermines the credibility of the EU law at the last minute, according to diplomats near the conversations.
Teresa Ribera, Vice President of the Commission, who supervises green problems, told the FT: “I hope that these chaotic days can be clarified as soon as possible and that we can reach a consensus.”
Separated members of his legal committee on Wednesday voted for the question Metsola to sue the Commission Because the parliament escaped when it decided to publish more debts to fuel the reparation of the block.
Piperea’s application also mentions this alleged “procedural abuse”. He “asks the European Commission to withdraw because repeated failures are guaranteed the transparency, persistent disregard for democratic supervision and the rule of law within the Union”.
A spokesman for the parliament rejected a statement.
Additional reporting by Barbara Moens in Brussels
