Pfizergate: Cisint Votes No Confidence in von der Leyen

“Citizens have the right to know how their money has been spent,” says the Honourable Anna Maria Cisint, MEP and regional deputy secretary of the Lega FVG with responsibility for Health and Local Authorities, in view of the vote of no confidence against the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. At the centre of the debate is the “Pfizergate” scandal and the failure to publish the messages exchanged between von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. Cisint underlines how, despite a condemnation by the Court of Justice of the EU, these communications, crucial for a 35 billion euro contract for 1.8 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines financed with public resources, remain secret.

“On May 15, I myself submitted a question to obtain a full copy of those SMS,” reiterates the Hon. Cisint, highlighting that the Presidency’s reticence in making them public “is equivalent to an admission of political guilt.” The MEP openly asks: “What can those messages reveal? What interests have guided decisions of historic significance, with direct repercussions on the pockets, health and jobs of millions of people?”.

For these reasons, and for what she calls the “poor management of these years” under von der Leyen – from her actions “against the interests of the European peoples” to her “antidemocratic attitude”, to the damage caused by an “ideological Green Deal that has crushed the economic system of Italian workers and citizens” –, the Honourable Anna Maria Cisint will vote “convincingly in favour of the motion of no confidence against the Commission and its President.”