Ursula von der Leyen officially invested by the European People’s Party for a new mandate at the head of the European Commission

She will be able to run for a second term as president of the European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen was officially inaugurated on Thursday March 7 by the European People’s Party (EPP), her conservative political family, meeting at a Congress in Bucharest. It received broad support from the members present (400 votes for, 89 against), an EPP representative announced from the podium after the vote.

To be elected again as head of the Commission, the 65-year-old German will then have to convince a majority of the continent’s leaders this summer and obtain a favorable vote from the European deputies, freshly renewed at the end of the European elections which will be held in June. The vote will lead to a renewal of the heads of the main EU institutions, including that of the Commission, which must reflect the political balance resulting from the ballot boxes.