Von der Leyen: Censure Motion Over Pfizer Texts

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will submit on July 10 to a motion of censure before the European Parliament, after a previous debate that will be held on Monday. Von der Ley will face the motion after requesting the ultra -rightist group conservatives and European reformists (ECR), consisting of more than 72 eurosiputados, who claim their departure from the community executive for hiding their text messages with Pfizer’s CEO during Coronavirus pandemic.

To force a motion of censure that, if going ahead, would mean the full executive, it is necessary that a tenth of the deputies who form the Eurocamara, as has happened in this case with the initiative promoted by the Romanian Eurodiput Gheorghe Pipper, of the group of the group, of the group, of the group European conservatives and reformists.

However, to be approved it is necessary that the motion has the support of a two -thirds majority Of the votes cast that, in turn, represents most of the deputies that make up the Parliament.

In this regard, parliamentary sources consulted by Europa Press They slide that the table on the table has no signs of prospering because no group in the Eurocamara, nor the most critical of the German conservative, support the motion in block.

In July 2024, the German conservative achieved the approval of the Eurocamara to assume a second mandate, although managed with a tight majority of 401 votes in favor (of the 707 cast), 284 votes against, 15 abstentions and seven null votes.

In any case, the demand has been formally registered and has the necessary guarantees, so now that it has been validated by the institutions of the institution, so the debate and subsequent vote has been set, which will be nominal and cannot be held before 48 hours after the debate pass. Although there are several precedents of motions filed against the community executive, none of them prospered.

The motion of censure is based on the judgment of last May of the EU General Court that annulled the decision of the European Commission to deny access to a journalist to the content of text messages that at the time of negotiation of the contracts to buy vaccines against the coronavirus exchanged von der Leyen, and the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla.