Roberta Metsola appointed new President of European Parliament

Category : International Published on: January 21 2022

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Roberta Metsola has been elected as the head of the Parliament of the European Union. Metsola has become the only third woman to hold the position.
Roberta Metsola is a politician from the smallest nation of the European Union.
She has also become the youngest ever president to hold this position.
She has taken over the post recently after the sudden demise of former president David Sassoli.
The European Parliament is one of the three legislative branches of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
The European Parliament is composed of 705 members and represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world.