Maltese legislator Roberta Metsola elected European Parliament president

Roberta Metsola (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Roberta Metsola of Malta has been elected president of the European Parliament, taking over for a two and a half-year term after the death of David Sassoli last week.

She is only the third woman elected to the post and on her 43rd birthday she is the parliament’s youngest president.