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After the high noon vote in Strasbourg on Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has emerged not weakened but strengthened from the latest motions of censure in the European Parliament — and, crucially for the German politician, her centrist coalition has held firm.
A total of 378 and 383 MEPs backed her Commission against two separate motions of censure tabled by the far-right and far-left groups.
The show of hands represents not only more support than in the previous no-confidence vote in July, but also higher than the 370 votes that confirmed her college of commissioners at the start of this legislature in November 2024.
The results suggest that the so-called centrist majority — along with most MEPs from the Greens/EFA and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) groups — rallied behind the von der Leye
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