The first speaker of the European Parliament in the first elected vice speaker Robert Metsol. This decision was accepted at a meeting on January 18, its broadcast was conducted on the website EP.
The choice fell on the candidate from the faction of the Conservative European People’s Party during the first round of voting at the plenary session in Strasbourg.
Elections were appointed after the death of the ex-head of EP David Sassoli, who deceased January 11 due to serious problems with the immune system – before that, he was in the hospital for several weeks.
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