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’s Irene Montero, her bid is merely symbolic and will not obstruct the incumbent’s path to re-election. That’s because Metsola has managed to draw consensus from across the parliament’s fractious political divides at a time when ideological rifts seem …