The EPP group’s candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola from Malta, was questioned, on Wednesday 8 December about her anti-abortion stance by several MEPs of the Renew Europe group, notably from France.
Bernard Guetta is said by one observer to have “set the scene” by announcing that he would not vote for Ms Metsola so as not to send a signal that could be interpreted as a regression of women’s rights. Some recalled that one of the two women who...