Congratulations @RobertaMetsola on being reconfirmed as @EP_President for the next two and a half years.
2024 is indeed a historic year for Malta, with our seat on the @UN Security Council, the 2024 Maltese Chairpersonship of the @OSCE, and a Maltese MEP leading the…
— Ian Borg (@MinisterIanBorg) July 16, 2024
Malta’s Foreign Minister Ian Borg congratulated Metsola in a message on X, describing this a historic year for Malta with its chairpersonship of the OSCE, the seat on the UN Security Council and now “a Maltese MEP leading the European Parliament”.
Opposition leader Bernard Grech also congratulated Metsola and said she will put the common good before anything else.
The vote will be followed by the election of the 14 vice-presidents, proportionally distributed among the main parties. This will assess the effectiveness of the cordon sanitaire: Patriots for Europe is vying to secure one of the vice-presidents, something that the EPP, the Socialists and the Liberals have vowed to prevent.
“These are elected posts of the Parliament,” an EPP spokesperson said on Friday. “We don’t want these MEPs to represent the institution, that’s the main reason.”
Speaker of the House of Representatives Anglu Farrugia welcomed the result, saying it was a prestigious role for the Maltese MEP.
Metsola was elected European Parliament president in January 2022 getting an absolute majority of votes on the first round.
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