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The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly elected Roberta Metsola for another term as its president, with 562 votes in her favour. Thanking the assembled EU legislators for their support in her victory speech, Metsola urged the parliament to recapture their “belief that ours is a Europe for all.” 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. Her opponent Irene Montero, put forward by the The Left parliamentary group, only received 61 votes….

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