The Maltese will succeed the late David Sassoli. The candidate of the European People’s Party has the support of the same parties that in 2019 boosted her socialist predecessor to the presidency, and that of the Commission to the German Ursula von der Leyen.
The European Parliament will elect its new president this Tuesday, the candidate of the European People’s Party (PPE), the Maltesa Roberta Metsola, for the remaining two and a half years of the 2019-2024 legislature. ‘Popular’, socialists and liberals yesterday closed an agreement to elect the successor to the late David Sassoli (the vote was scheduled before his sudden death).
Metsola, who turns 43 this Tuesday, has the support of the same people who in 2019 raised Sassoli to the presidency, and the German Ursula von der Leyen of the Commission. Traditionally, the main groups have alternated their respective candidates in the presidency of the European Parliament.
After weeks of negotiations between the three groups, the Social Democrats and the Liberals announced their support; in the case of the socialist caucus, in exchange for more weight among the 14 vice presidencies of the institution and other leadership positions in the European Parliament, although without his desired relief from the secretary general of the institution, the popular Klaus Welle.
In addition to Metsola, three deputies have applied for the position, although without options: the Swedish Greens, Alice Bah Kuhnke; the Spanish of the Left, Sira Rego, and the Polish conservative, Kosma Zlotowski.
The vote will be cast electronically due to the pandemic, so the result will not It will be known until 11:00 a.m..
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