Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.
It should either not happen at all or become a worthy tradition. Who wouldn’t like to mourn Shapiro, Tate, Peterson, Netanyahu, Trump, Vance etc passing if they take off in a timely fashion? It wouldn’t hurt to have said moment of silence every week or so.