Commission chief is not running in MEP elections but is doing all she can to boost increasingly shaky bid for second term
Ursula von der Leyen in Spain last week to take part in the People's party campaign for the European parliament elections.Ursula von der Leyen in Spain last week to take part in the People's party campaign for the European parliament elections.
With cheering activists and campaign “merch” – as team Von der Leyen refers to its royal purple branded mugs and hoodies – it looks like any other drive to get the vote out. There is even a video of the commission president striding purposefully along a lane near her countryside home to dramatic orchestral music. “Campaigning is one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life,” the German politician said at aon 6-9 June and almost nobody she meets can vote for her.
She will have to build support from other groups, a precarious political balancing act, to gain the 361 votes required.have said they will refuse to support her if she works with the hard-right nationalists in Georgia Meloni’s European Conservatives and Reformists group. Von der Leyen has so far refused to rule out working with the ECR, intensifying pressure from her left.Giorgia Meloni speaking in April with Ursula von der Leyen, who has not ruled out working with Italian PM’s ECR group.
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