der: Von der Leyen said the level of support she had secured, while less than that for Jos Manuel Barroso in 2004 and 2010, was a vote of confidence in what she described as an agenda for change . The Green party, which has been unconvinced by the radicalism of Von der Leyen's approach, abstained in the vote and anti-EU parties including Italy's far-right League and France's National Rally rejected the proposed commission, according to The Guardian. The commission, which will be formally approved by leaders on the European council on Thursday through a written procedure, is forming a month later than intended as a result of MEPs rejecting the original nominees from Hungary, France and Romania. The European parliament, sitting in Strasbourg, approved the new college of commissioners, headed by the EU executive's first female president, by 461 votes to 157 with 89 abstentions on Wednesday, giving her a larger majority than her predecessor, Jean-Claude Juncker. Von der Leyen's hour-long speech to MEPs lacked the ad-libbing of Juncker, who was never shy of causing controversy, and offered few eye-grabbing policy initiatives. A vast majority of this house seems to be happy about the fact a very, very, very small group in this house would not be able to clap as loud any more, Von der Leyen said. But when Brexit party MEPs clapped and cheered at the mention of Brexit, the incoming commission president strayed from her notes.
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