The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly elected Roberta Metsola for another term as its president, with 562 votes in her favour. The vote to re-elect Metsola for another two-and-a-half years took place in the first sitting of the EU legislature’s new term at the parliament’s seat in the eastern French city of Strasbourg. Metsola is the third woman to hold the office. Previous female presidents of the European Parliament include France’s Nicole Fontaine and the Holocaust survivor Simone Veil. EU lawmakers had been expected to back Metsola, a Maltese member of the centre-right European…