{"id":73060,"date":"2026-04-17T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/von-der-leyen-immune-from-democracy-afd-leader-rt-world-news-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:10:01","slug":"von-der-leyen-immune-from-democracy-afd-leader-rt-world-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/von-der-leyen-immune-from-democracy-afd-leader-rt-world-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen immune from democracy &#8211; AfD leader &#8211; RT World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                    Alice Weidel has said that unlike Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the EU Commission President cannot be voted out\n            <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alice Weidel, co-chair of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has said that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen may ignore voters&#8217; opinions because she cannot be fundamentally voted on like recently defeated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference this week, Weidel acknowledged Peter Magyar&#8217;s landslide victory in Hungary&#8217;s election, which ended Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s 16-year rule. <em>&#8220;Perfectly legal,&#8221;<\/em> But concerns grew about democratic accountability among the EU leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Praising Orb\u00e1n <em>&#8220;A critical, critical voice&#8221;<\/em> Within the EU, Weidel then agreed with a German journalist from Die Welt, who said <em>&#8220;Orb\u00e1n can be voted out; Ms von der Leyen can&#8217;t be voted out.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more large\" data-has-alias=\"\">\n<picture>\n                    <!--(if IE 9)>\n                    <video style=\"display: none;\"><!(endif)--><source media=\"(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" data-srcset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xxs\/69de2167203027492d29f206.jpg 560w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xs\/69de2168203027492d29f207.jpg 640w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/thumbnail\/69de2166203027492d29f205.jpg 920w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/m\/69de2169203027492d29f208.jpg 1080w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/l\/69de216a203027492d29f209.jpg 1536w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/article\/69de2165203027492d29f204.jpg 1960w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xxl\/69de216b203027492d29f20a.jpg 2480w&#10;                        \" srcset=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\"\/><source data-srcset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xxs\/69de2167203027492d29f206.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xs\/69de2168203027492d29f207.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/thumbnail\/69de2166203027492d29f205.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/m\/69de2169203027492d29f208.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/l\/69de216a203027492d29f209.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/article\/69de2165203027492d29f204.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xxl\/69de216b203027492d29f20a.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" srcset=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\"\/><!--(if IE 9)><\/video><!(endif)--><\/p>\n<\/picture>\n                <!-- noscript pattern --><br \/>\n                <noscript><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/xxs\/69de2167203027492d29f206.jpg\" alt=\"Von der Leyen insists on ending veto power in the EU\"\/><br \/>\n                <\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Magyar&#8217;s conservative and pro-EU Tisza party won 53.6% of the vote and 138 of 199 parliamentary seats in Hungary&#8217;s election on Sunday, while Orban&#8217;s far-right and EU-sceptic Fidesz was reduced to just 55 seats. During his tenure, Orb\u00e1n clashed with Brussels over immigration and sanctions on Russia and opposed EU support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It took only 17 minutes for von der Leyen to issue a statement celebrating Magyar&#8217;s victory after Orb\u00e1n conceded defeat. <em>&#8220;Hungary has chosen Europe,&#8221;<\/em> Von der Leyen said. <em>&#8220;Europe has always chosen Hungary. One country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later, he also called on member states to eliminate the national veto in EU foreign policy by claiming qualified majority voting. <em>&#8220;An important way to avoid systemic disruptions&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; A direct hit on Orban&#8217;s years of veto on Ukraine-related decisions. <\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen has faced criticism over several controversies since becoming EC president in 2019. One of the most notable is the &#8216;Pfizergate&#8217; scandal, which centered on personal text messages exchanged by the EU chief with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla during negotiations on a \u20ac35 billion deal for 1.8 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses. In May 2025, an EU court ruled the Commission <em>&#8220;Failed to provide a credible explanation&#8221;<\/em> Why were the messages not retained?<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen has survived several no-confidence votes over the past two years, with her critics criticizing her lack of transparency and her handling of the immigration issue. She has long been attempting to push through a series of fundamental changes to EU rules to create a two-tier bloc into which Ukraine could be integrated, despite not meeting the common requirements of member states.<\/p>\n<p>The Polling Europe Euroscope survey of April 2026 put von der Leyen&#8217;s approval rating at 33%, down 12% from February. A separate Ipsos Europepulse poll from September 2025 put his positive rating even lower, at only 23%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>            You can share this story on social media:\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__social-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article__google-news lower\"><span>Follow RT<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rtnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/static\/img\/telegram_banners\/telegram.svg\" alt=\"RT\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; width: 120px\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__google-news-mobile\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rtnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/static\/img\/telegram_banners\/telegram_gif.gif\" alt=\"RT\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Weidel has said that unlike Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the EU Commission President cannot be voted out Alice Weidel, co-chair of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has said that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen may ignore voters&#8217; opinions because she cannot be fundamentally voted on like recently defeated Hungarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5932,688,5677,5797,362,5678,615,5676,166],"class_list":{"0":"post-73060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-der","11":"tag-immune","12":"tag-leader","13":"tag-leyen","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-von","16":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73064,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73060\/revisions\/73064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}