This next July 10the president of the European Commission, Úrsula von der Leyen, will face the motion of censure against her cabinet, for hide messages with the Pfizer CEO referring to the purchase of vaccines during the pandemic in 2021. This motion was proposed by the Romanian ultraconservative Euro Gheorghe Pipperlast week. The debate will begin this Monday, and it will participate in it A MEP for each game And at the end of it, The President may defend.
A motion of censure with few supports
So that the motion of censure was debated in the Eurocamara, a 10% of signatures of the MEPs, in this legislature they are 72. In this case, 77 Eurodiputados have supported the motion of censure, among which is, the Leader of the party, Alvise Pérez. Most signatories belong to the block Ultranationalist and the block of ultra -right of the hemicycle.
If all the sheds were present when starting the vote, they would be 480 votes of the 719 total deputies. It is very unlikely that the motion be approved, since the majority of the hemicycle, including: Popular, socialist, liberal or green, are against the initiative.
Vaccines, the cause of the motion
The promoters of the motion of censure want the German conservative accounts of its management of vaccines during pandemic or having excluded to the Eurocamara of key negotiations.
Von der Leyen negotiated in 2021 with the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourlathe purchase of vaccines against the coronavirus in text messages that would end up becoming the origin of a judicial case against it for the Lack of transparency In these exchanges.
In addition, the fact that the European Commission has decided exclude Eurocamara of the negotiation of the European Fund of 150,000 million euros To finance joint purchases in Defense is another of the issues that the relationship between Brussels and the MEPs And it is also mentioned among the arguments of the motion of censure.
