AAfter Barnier, LFI targets Ursula von der Leyen. Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party, which tabled a motion of censure whose adoption led to the overthrow of the Prime Minister, now wants to file a censure against the president of the European institution. At issue is the free trade agreement concluded with the South American Mercosur countries, finalized by the European Commission and criticized by several European countries, particularly France.
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“I want to solemnly sound the alert. The European Commission is moving into force. She refused us access to the negotiation documents,” said MEP Manon Aubry, guest of CNews-Europe 1 this Friday, December 13. “I am tabling with my group a motion of censure against the European Commission,” she announced, calling on “all other European deputies” to vote for the text.
“It will be a moment of truth: we are going to bring down this European Commission which is imposing a free trade agreement on us which will kill our agriculture,” she said, stressing that she had already “succeeded in bringing down Michel Barnier and his government “.
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“What we did in France against Barnier, we can do in the European Union against von der Leyen! » she also insisted on her X account. Tuesday, December 10, the MEP published a press release justifying their motion of censure against “a real institutional coup”. “Ursula von der Leyen's contempt for parliamentary democracy is not limited to the European Parliament. By surreptitiously announcing that the agreement was becoming a partnership agreement, Ursula von der Leyen is choosing a change of legal basis, in order to deprive national parliaments of a ratification vote,” it is written.
And to continue: “In order to please the industrial interests of the automobile industry, Ursula von der Leyen therefore chose to impose on co-legislators and national parliaments the forced conclusion of a climate-killing and socially inequitable agreement, which will complete ruin European agriculture, endanger our health and devastate the planet. »ALSO READ The 10 key points of the EU-Mercosur agreementAccording to All Europe, this motion of censure must be issued by at least one tenth of the European deputies (i.e. 72 currently). Manon Aubry's group only has 46.
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