Maltese Roberta Mitsula elected President of the European Parliament

The European Parliament has voted to elect Conservative MP Roberta Mezzola as its new president, succeeding David Sassoli, who died suddenly last week.

Mitsola, who is from Malta, and who turned 43 today, belongs to the center-right European People's Party (EPP) bloc, while Sassoli was a center-left "Socialists and Democrats".

In a speech before the deputies in a plenary session in the French city of Strasbourg, Mitsola expressed her feeling of pride for the responsibility that her colleagues gave her.

She stressed the need to resist anti-EU rhetoric.

Mitsola was able to win the office easily, after receiving 458 deputies out of 616 votes in the session.

Mitsola is the youngest person and the third woman to hold this position in the history of the European Parliament.

It should be noted that there is no connection between the vote and the death of Sassoli, but rather a power-sharing agreement that was reached two and a half years ago.

The President of the European Parliament usually manages the activities of the plenary sessions, maintains order in sessions and signs laws.

Mitsula is the first Maltese to hold the position, which usually goes to the bloc's largest member states.

In her nomination letter, she said, "I am a woman from a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean. I understand what it means to be vulnerable. I know what it means to be stereotyped."

Malta has a population of about 500,000 people, out of a total of 450 million people living in the European Union.

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