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Radle | 3 years ago

Sorry for passing Ursula von der Leyen to the EU, this feels like a deja vu.

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DoingIsLearning|3 years ago

Reminder that she was planted there at the last minute by the EC with no agreement in parlament. The natural candidate should have been Frans Timmermans.

She won by margin of 383 votes to 327. 9 votes above minimum.

Anyone outside mainstream media can see she is more concerned about her self-preserving PR than achieving anything of substance, for a women touted as an example of female leadership she is but a shadow of a Merkel.

ginko|3 years ago

She was planted by the European Council (Orban in particular). The natural candidate would have been Manfred Weber since his faction won the EP election.