The tenth legislature of the European Parliament is in full swing and it will begin today with the plenary session to elect the president, deputies and caucuses. Atofa Roberta Metsolaoutgoing president, with 562 votes.
It was only the Spanish to challenge her Irene Monteroexponent of Podemos, nominated by the group The Left, who received 61 votes.
Metsola was thus reconfirmed, as a result of the majority agreement between the EPP, S&D and Renew, but also by virtue of having obtained a very broad consensus in the final mandate.
Since the first election to the European Parliament by universal suffrage in 1979, the President has been elected and remains in office for a renewable period of two and a half years. During each parliamentary term, the first election is usually held in July, immediately after the election of the new Parliament, and the second mid-term election is held two and a half years later, in January.
“I will not avoid difficult decisions, I will not let you down”
“I will not shy away from making difficult decisions. My door will always remain open. MPs will be treated fairly and with dignity. As President, you know I am capable of protecting our Parliament and building bridges across divisions political. to be here today. And if you choose to trust me, I will not disappoint you.” With these words, Roberta Metsola opened her speech to the plenary session before the vote.
“This must be a Parliament of debate and respect. A house where we can argue and argue our corner in lively and active sessions that capture people’s attention and imagination – he added – A Parliament where red tape and unnecessary bureaucracy are reduced, where simplification means we are less ticked off with boxes and more in common. sense Where all abuses are fought and where it is easier to do our work.”
“People will look to us for guidance,” Metsola continued on the face of peace; the need to keep our promises and keep our Union as a world leader in rights, equality, security, climate, opportunity, competitive markets, free but fair, with a strong society of pillars that allows everyone to be as they want to be and no one is left behind”.
In recent years, the EPP and the S&D groups have respectively led the European Chamber. The President is elected based on the nominations proposed by the political groups, but the twentieth (38) of the members of the Parliament can also nominate him. Since the first vice-president, the Austrian Othmar Karas (EPP), did not stand for re-election, the Italian chaired the session Pina Picierno, the vice president who received the most consecutive votes in 2022.
Elections are held by secret ballot, with a maximum of four roundsthe. To be elected, the candidate must receive a clear majority of the votes cast, ie 50% plus one. If the number of candidates to elect the President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors is less than or equal to the seats to be filled, the election may be held by recommendation, unless a secret vote of at least 150 members is required.
After electing the President, the Parliament will also elect 14 vice-presidents and 5 questioners.
These are elected in one vote by a clear majority of the votes cast. If the number of elected candidates is less than 14, a second vote will be held to assign the remaining seats under the same conditions. If a third vote is needed, a relative majority will be enough to fill the remaining seats The group Patriots for Europe will not present any candidate for president of the European Parliament, while it has proposed Fabrice Leggeri, the former director of Frontex, as a candidate -director. -president and Czech MEP from the ANO party. The Ecr Group has decided to recommend the Italian Antonella Sberna (FdI) and the Latvian Roberts Zile as vice-president and Kosma Zlotowski (Pis) as a candidate for commissioner.
European Elections 2024 – Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, voting in Sliema (Malta)
The group of European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) announced late yesterday evening, after a group meeting in Strasbourg, that a large majority of its members will vote in favor of the re-election of the current president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola. For co-president Nicola Procaccini “Roberta Metsola has shown her commitment to dialogue and her openness to balance and compromise, even when there are strong differences of opinion. She is able to build bridges and find common ground between political alignments”.
For co-president Joachim Brudzinski “Metsola has many of the qualities required of the President of the Parliament: it is pragmatic and consensus-oriented. His commitment to Ukraine is also significant. These points form the basis of our support for re-election.” During the meeting the conservatives also decided to propose the Members Roberts Zile and Antonella Sberna as candidates for the 14 positions as Vice President of the European Parliament. ECR candidate nominated for one of the five quaestors The election for the president of the Parliament will take place this afternoon.