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european The union’s top official comfortably escaped two more votes of no confidence on Thursday as an overwhelming majority of EU lawmakers rejected censure motions against her.
but in votes European Commission chairman Ursula von der Leyen378 MPs rejected the far-right censure motion, with 179 in favor and 37 abstaining. On the far-left motion, 383 MPs voted in opposition, 133 in support and 78 abstained.
Von der Leyen has now survived three no-confidence votes in a year since starting her second five-year term at the helm of the EU’s powerful executive branch. She is the first commission chief to face such a vote in more than a decade.
The Commission proposes EU laws and monitors whether those in force are respected. It also manages trade on behalf of its 27 member states and is Europe’s top competition regulator.
nationalist Patriot The Political Group for Europe says migration has “exploded” under von der Leyen’s leadership and threatens “our identity and security”. Its members say he abandons farmers and consumers while endangering food security with pro-environmental policies.
The leftist group accused him of “signing numerous harmful trade deals” and “failing to take action against systemic violations of international law by the Israeli government.” Gaza,
But von der Leyen was supported by large pro-European centrist groups during the vote in Strasbourg, France. They have a majority in the Assembly, and they accuse groups on the left and right sides of the political spectrum of using censure motions for political gain.
But the votes have also been a lightning rod for criticism of von der Leyen — who led the EU’s drive to find vaccines for citizens of all 27 countries during the pandemic — and her center-right European People’s Party, the largest political family in the assembly.
He is accused of collaborating with the far right to further his political agenda.