Congresswoman Green who wanted to see Von Der Leyen’s text messages died suddenly
Michèle Rivasi, the Green MEP who pushed for text exchanges between the president of the European Commission and the CEO of Pfizer to be made public, died on Wednesday (November 29) at the age of 70 from a heart attack while on his way to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Rivasi had been a member of the European Parliament for the Greens since 2009, notably involved in the battle against the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement and against the use of pesticides, including glyphosate.
In the name of transparency, he dedicated part of his latest mandate to investigating the so-called "SMS affair", which concerns suspicions about text messages exchanged between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on the negotiation of a contract for 1.8 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
“Always ready to defend the principles dear to her, Michèle Rivasi has dedicated her life to the protection of biodiversity and our health, and to the fight for the transparency of our institutions in the interest of European citizens,” we read in a statement.
She was also known for her controversial stance on vaccines. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the MEP had criticized the implementation of a “COVID certificate” and the mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers in France.
A character who is therefore inconvenient for many political parties of the left. Now it will be much easier, at the end of the European legislature, to try to hide everything that happened in the Commission with the contracts for the purchase of vaccines. Unfortunately, the current parliamentary majority, beyond some formal position, has very little interest in getting to the bottom of the issue. Yet even the NYT asked for clarification on the issue, without managing to obtain any.
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