The vote of no confidence against Commission President Ursula von der Leyen failed on Thursday, as mainstream and progressive political groups lined up behind her despite the clear controversies surrounding ‘Pfizergate’. During the vote in the European Parliament, 553 MEPs cast their votes out of a total of 720. Of those, 175 supported the motion of no confidence against the president, while 360 voted against it, and 18 abstained.
The European People’s Party (EPP), Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the Greens, Renew, and the Left collectively voted in support of von der Leyen, although not every MEP was present. Some members of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) also voted against the motion. Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) voted in favour of the motion. Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar, an MEP from the Respect and Freedom (Tisza) party affiliated with the EPP, abstained, while two of Tisza’s MEPs voted in support of von der Leyen. Meanwhile, ten out of eleven MEPs from the Hungarian governing coalition Fidesz–KDNP voted against the president, with one abstention.
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Source: https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/von-der-leyen-no-confidence-vote-ep/
