{"id":5404,"date":"2021-11-25T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=5404"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:55:50","slug":"il-mpe-roberta-metsola-maghzula-bhala-kandidata-tal-ppe-ghall-presidenza-tal-pe","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/il-mpe-roberta-metsola-maghzula-bhala-kandidata-tal-ppe-ghall-presidenza-tal-pe\/","title":{"rendered":"MEP Roberta Metsola chosen as EPP candidate for EP Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EP-Feature-388.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EP-Feature-388.jpg 1023w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EP-Feature-388-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EP-Feature-388-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EP-Feature-388-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PN MEP Robert Metsola has been chosen as the European People\u2019s Party candidate for the European Parliament President election scheduled for January. &nbsp;The EPP chose Metsola through a vote, putting her in a prime position to potentially replace current President David Sassoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metsola received 112 votes in the first round of the group\u2019s internal election. Dutch MEP Ester de Lange got 44 votes while 18 MEPs voted for Austrian MEP Othmar Karas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m truly honoured to have been given a strong mandate by the EPP group to be our family\u2019s candidate for president of the European Parliament,\u201d Metsola said in her first reaction during a news conference alongside EPP leader Manfred Weber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe second half of this legislature will be critical for Europe &#8211; I will work hard to keep building bridges in this House as we work together in pushing forward important legislative files and bringing decision-making closer to people in every member state,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If elected, Metsola would be the first Maltese official to win one of the EU\u2019s top jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the institution, it\u2019s not about party politics at all,\u201d Weber told reporters. \u201cOur candidate represents really the majority opinion \u2014 I would call it the Ursula von der Leyen majority,\u201d he added, referencing the current European Commission president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PN MEP Robert Metsola has been chosen as the European People\u2019s Party candidate for the European Parliament President election scheduled for January. &nbsp;The EPP chose Metsola through a vote, putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[247],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/5404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/5404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/5404\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}