{"id":379091,"date":"2024-07-18T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/18\/dichiarazioni-voto-von-der-leyen-bis\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:15:29","slug":"a-second-von-der-leyen-term-emerges-from-voting-indications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/18\/a-second-von-der-leyen-term-emerges-from-voting-indications\/","title":{"rendered":"A second von der Leyen term emerges from voting indications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0The Populars are convinced, the socialists willing, and the liberals ready. And then there are the Greens, open to cooperation. The Chamber of the European Parliament is speaking out for a second von der Leyen term<\/strong>. The voting indications rendered in the hemicycle offer clear indications: the EPP, S&D, Renew, and Greens converge on the outgoing President of the European Commission, who, in words, is ready to be given a second term.<\/p>\n

The Popular Party has no doubts. “von der Leyen’s political program is what we need for the next five years, and von der Leyen is the right choice,” stressed the EPP group leader, Manfred Weber<\/strong>. The Social Democrats and Liberals immediately add: “The housing commissioner is good news,” Iratxe Garcia Perez (S&D)<\/strong> said. “Together, we can shape a European Union for social justice.” Together. These are the Socialists’ openings. As long as they do not open up to the right, Camilla Laureti <\/strong>(Pd\/S&D) notes: “We are not open to any kind of agreement with the sovereignists.” Valerie Hayer<\/strong> (Renew) stresses that “von der Leyen’s guidelines aligned with our program,” a statement that the colleague Jan Gerbrandy <\/strong>translates into: “We are ready to give her a second chance.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Presidential candidate for a second term is also rewarded by the Greens, less convinced than the other groups, admittedly, but pleased with her commitments towards sustainability and her choice not to engage in dialogue with Euroskeptic and sovereignist forces. “Is von der Leyen a green candidate? No, but let’s work together<\/strong> for a better Europe and to ward off the far right,” chimes Terry Reintke<\/strong>, co-chair of the Greens.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0configuration emerging from the early speeches, another additional element\u00a0supporting\u00a0von der Leyen is the cryptic voting statement of Nicola Procaccini<\/strong>, co-chair of the Conservatives (ECR). “We are sovereignists.\u00a0Each party\u00a0of\u00a0the ECR\u00a0will vote according to their national interests<\/strong>.”\u00a0Therefore, there could be some support from the Conservatives, perhaps from the Italian side. Numbers in hand, von der Leyen, judging from\u00a0the speeches in the House, could come out with a large majority.<\/p>\n

There are also critical voices\u00a0opposing the vote in favor,\u00a0as to be expected and as, moreover, already widely announced. Such is the case of the Patriots for Europe group. “Without ambiguity, the League says no to an\u00a0encore of Ursula von der Leyen,<\/strong>” thunders the League’s head of delegation,\u00a0Paolo Borchia<\/strong>. The group’s vice chair, Hungary’s Kinga Gal (Fidesz), attacks, “Von der Leyen uses the rule of law as a weapon of blackmail, to take money from those entitled. And for peace, she has done nothing; on the contrary, with her, war is coming closer.”<\/p>\n

The latter statement prompted the Liberal Sigrief Muresan<\/strong>\u00a0to clarify with\u00a0an implicit accusation: “Today, we have to vote against those who take orders from [Russian President] Putin<\/strong>, and from this point of view, von der Leyen is the best possible answer.”<\/p>\n

The Patriots’ ‘no’ is also joined by those of Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) and the Left,\u00a0\u00a0groups that register full convergence when\u00a0both Manon Aubry (Left) and Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik (ESN) invite von der Leyen “to appear before the Court of Justice<\/strong>, and not in this Chamber,” referring to the Luxembourg courts’ findings of insufficient transparency in access to documents for anti-COVID vaccines<\/a>. Dynamics proper to debate and politics, from which a second von der Leyen term\u00a0emerges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Populars, Socialists, Liberals and even Greens ready to support a second term for the outgoing President of the European Commission. Conservatives are in random order. ESN, PfE, and Left opposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":378995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25746,25747,25755,26708],"class_list":["post-379091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-session-plenary-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379091"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379568,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379091\/revisions\/379568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}