Roberta Metsola reelected European Parliament president
Source: Politico
STRASBOURG — Roberta Metsola has been reelected as president of the European Parliament.
First elected to the post in January 2022, the Maltese European People’s Party (EPP) politician will remain in the role for 2.5 more years after gathering the support of a majority of the newly elected 720 members of the European Parliament, with 562 votes in her favor.
She was widely expected to be reelected as she ran virtually unopposed. Only The Left’s Irene Montero, Spain’s former minister of equality, symbolically submitted her candidacy against Metsola. Montero got 61 votes.
The Parliament president’s five-year mandate has been traditionally split in two between the center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the center-right EPP.
When it comes time for the S&D to pick a successor to Metsola, options include Spain’s Iratxe García, leader of the S&D group in Parliament, or a leading figure within Italy’s Democratic Party, which is the largest force in the S&D.
Read here the full article published by POLITICO on 16 July 2024.
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STRASBOURG — Roberta Metsola has been reelected as president of the European Parliament.
First elected to the post in January 2022, the Maltese European People’s Party (EPP) politician will remain in the role for 2.5 more years after gathering the support of a majority of the newly elected 720 members of the European Parliament, with 562 votes in her favor.
She was widely expected to be reelected as she ran virtually unopposed. Only The Left’s Irene Montero, Spain’s former minister of equality, symbolically submitted her candidacy against Metsola. Montero got 61 votes.
The Parliament president’s five-year mandate has been traditionally split in two between the center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the center-right EPP.
When it comes time for the S&D to pick a successor to Metsola, options include Spain’s Iratxe García, leader of the S&D group in Parliament, or a leading figure within Italy’s Democratic Party, which is the largest force in the S&D.
Read here the full article published by POLITICO on 16 July 2024.
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