17/12/2019 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament will vote again by secret ballot on Wednesday 18 December at 12:30 pm to elect the new European Ombudsman. At the end of the first round, none of the five candidates had obtained the necessary majority. The current Ombudsman, Ireland’s Emily O'Reilly, received 240 votes, far ahead of Estonian Julia Laffranque, a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (162 votes), the former Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikström (73),...