From the Leyen before Vote of no confidence: political crisis in the EU!

From the Leyen before Vote of no confidence: political crisis in the EU!

Brüssel, Belgien - Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, faces a serious request for no confidence in the European Parliament. Today the EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola informed the parliamentary group leader about the initiation of this application. The application, which was initiated by the Romanian MP Ghorghe Piperea from the right parliamentary group, requires the support of at least one tenth of the 720 MPs, which means at least 72 votes.

A request for no vote requires a majority of two thirds of the votes cast and the majority of the members of the parliament, which would require at least 361 votes in full presence. In the last election, the Commission received 370 out of the Leyen 370 of a total of 688 votes. However, due to several controversial political initiatives that caused displeasure, the commission sees a considerable pressure.

background of the application

A central criticism is a billion -dollar credit program for defense investments, which was planned without the participation of the European Parliament. In addition, Piperea and others accuse the Commission of withholding important information on Corona crisis communication with Pfizer. This was confirmed by a judgment of an EU court, which classified the refusal of the Commission to provide this information as unfounded.

In addition, it is criticized that corona vaccines worth around four billion euros were unused. Manfred Weber, the chairman of the EVP, described the application for no confidence as a party tactical game. It is important to note that requests for no confidence against the Commission are extremely rare. The last was in 2014 against the then commission of Jean-Claude Juncker, which, however, failed. In this vote, 101 MPs voted for the application, 461 rejected him, while 88 abstained.

successes and failures of no -confidence applications

In order to illustrate the severity of the situation, a look at the story is enough: so far, seven requests for no confidence in the European Parliament have been made, but none was accepted. The only successful application led to the resignation of the Jacques Santer Commission in 1999 after it was charged and mismanagement. At that time, public pressure led to the removal of the Commission.

to the Commission under Ursula von der Leyen is now a serious stress test. It will be crucial in the coming days whether the application for no confidence will find enough support, since the political constellations can develop within Parliament.