{"id":132397,"date":"2024-07-16T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/who-is-roberta-metsola-the-woman-eyeing-re-election-as-european-parliament-president\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:20:08","slug":"who-is-roberta-metsola-the-woman-eyeing-re-election-as-european-parliament-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/who-is-roberta-metsola-the-woman-eyeing-re-election-as-european-parliament-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Roberta Metsola, the woman eyeing re-election as European Parliament President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132397\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMetsola\u2019s re-election bid is expected to draw consensus from across the parliament\u2019s often-fractious political divides. As the newly-elected European Parliament gathers in Strasbourg for its inaugural sitting on Tuesday, its first task will be to elect its president. That vote is looking unlikely to be contentious, with current president Roberta Metsola set to cruise through to a second term unchallenged. Although the Left has fielded a challenger candidate, Spain&#8217;s Irene Montero, her bid is merely symbolic and will not obstruct the incumbent\u2019s path to re-election.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Metsola has managed to draw consensus from across the parliament\u2019s fractious political divides at a time when ideological rifts seem deeper than ever in the parliament\u2019s hemicycle. It means she&#8217;s tipped to comfortably secure the needed absolute majority of ballots cast. A Conservative Christian-democrat belonging to the centre-right European People\u2019s Party (EPP), Metsola is credited with steering the parliament through one of the most tumultuous periods in its 70-year history &#8211; including the eruption of war on Europe&#8217;s doorstep and the most explosive corruption scandal to ever hit the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Several parliamentary sources told Euronews that her performance over the past two years has seen her brush off initial qualms about her candidature, which were mainly centred around her anti-abortion views. &#8220;At the beginning of her term, I was sceptical because of her stance against abortion rights. I was afraid we would have a very Conservative lady in the presidency,&#8221; a Green MEP re-elected to the chamber in June&#8217;s European election said. &#8220;But she has proven to be a well-intentioned president, with an impressive attention to detail,&#8221; the MEP added. &#8220;She has managed to make parliament more visible and stronger during her last mandate,&#8221; another MEP from the Green group added. &#8220;She is a great ambassador for the European Parliament in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Metsola is the right person to lead this parliament,&#8221; a Socialist lawmaker said. Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s re-election as president of the EU&#8217;s powerful executive &#8211; to be decided in a vote on Thursday &#8211; is meanwhile looking much more shaky, prompting some to question whether Metsola herself would be a more palatable candidate for the role. A spokesperson for the Left group conceded that despite fielding its own candidate, it was not whipping its members to vote against Metsola &#8211; as it will do in the case of von der Leyen &#8211; adding that some members could support Metsola because of her strong tenure.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Metsola became the youngest person to preside over the European Parliament at the age of 43, when she took over following former president David Sassoli\u2019s death. She was also the first Maltese to take the parliament\u2019s helm, and the first woman in two decades. Since then, her time in office has been marked by many firsts. In April 2022, she became the first EU leader to visit Kyiv after Russia launched its illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/07\/16\/who-is-roberta-metsola-the-woman-eyeing-re-election-as-european-parliament-president\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/who-is-roberta-metsola-the-woman-eyeing-re-election-as-european-parliament-president\/\">Who is Roberta Metsola, the woman eyeing re-election as European Parliament President?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2368,15299,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-european-parliament","tag-roberta-metsola","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}