Ursula von der Leyen’s risky numbers game

''She's EU leaders' pick for European Commission president — and those leaders will need to rally members of the European Parliament behind Ursula von der Leyen to get her confirmed next week.
The math is simple, the politics is complicated: To become Commission president, von der Leyen must win an absolute majority of Parliament in the vote scheduled for Tuesday evening in Strasbourg.

That means, in practical terms, the conservative German defense minister needs the complete support of MEPs from her own European People's Party (EPP) — 182 votes — and slightly more than the same again, another 193 votes, to clinch the EU's top job.''
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