There is already date. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenthe Thursday, July 10 to . That day the vote of a process will take place that will begin Monday 7 with the debate Within the Eurocamara, as Strasbourg sources have confirmed to Europa Press.
The ‘boss’ of the Community Executive must face the motion before the formal request submitted by a large group of Eurodiputados, who ask for their departure from the commission by hide your text messages with the Pfizer CEO during pandemic of coronavirus.
To force a motion of censure – which, to get ahead, would mean the entire executive – it is necessary that he asks for a tenth of the deputies who form the Eurochamber, as has happened in this case with the Promotion iniciative POR EL EURODIPUTADO RUMANO GHEORGHE PIPEREAof the Ultra -rightist group conservatives and European reformists (ECR, for its acronym in English).
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 slide that the initiative on the table has no signs of prospering why No group In the Eurocamara, nor the most critical of the German conservative, They support block The motion.
In July 2024, the German conservative achieved the approval of the Eurocamara to assume a second mandate, although he achieved it with an adjusted 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 services of the institution, so the debate and subsequent vote, which will be nominal And it cannot be held before 48 hours have elapsed from the debate. Although there are several precedents of motions filed against the community executive, none of them prospered.
The motion of censure relies on the Judgment last May of the EU General Court which annulled the European Commission’s decision to deny access to a journalist to the content of text messages that at the time of negotiating contracts for the purchase of vaccines against the Coronavirus exchanged von der Leyen, and the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla.
