The EU Commission president has won a comfortable majority from MEPs for a second term, but the Left bloc remains resolutely opposed to Ursula von der Leyen. We speak to Manon Aubry, the co-president of the Left group, about why she voted against von der Leyen, while also discussing international issues such as Ukraine and Gaza. Aubry, a prominent member of the France Unbowed party, also tells FRANCE 24 that President Macron must “admit that he lost the (parliamentary) election” and appoint a prime minister from the left-wing alliance – the New Popular Front.
Asked about the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen, Aubry says that the President of the European Commission “is not questioning herself in the politics she's been driving for the last five years. And what is the result? An unprecedented rise of the far right. That is the result of her policy”.
