The center-right European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists and Democrats and liberal Renew Europe confirmed to POLITICO they will vote against any such motion. The Greens, meanwhile, are unlikely to support bringing down the Commission via a far-right motion.
Iratxe García Pérez, chair of the S&D group, said: “We won’t support any extreme-right initiative.”
Even The Left group lawmakers, typically critical of von der Leyen, suggested they were likely to vote against the motion. “We don’t work with the far-right groups who have been lately de facto supporting von der Leyen’s agenda and then pretending to be mad at her,” a group spokesperson said.
The motion has garnered support from MEPs from the far-right Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations groups. It has also notably received backing from some EPP MEPs, likely the Slovenian delegation, which previously voted against von der Leyen’s re-election last summer.
But the EPP at large — von der Leyen’s own party — would naturally vote against, having slammed the no confidence vote as “irresponsible” and “disgraceful to the citizens who cast their votes just one year ago.”
