Italian national Antonio Tajani, the EPP Group candidate, was elected president of the European Parliament at around 9.00pm on Tuesday 17 January, in Strasbourg. He will serve as president during the second half (two and a half years) of the current Parliament’s mandate.
Tajani was elected at the fourth and final round of voting, with 351 votes compared with 282 for his rival Gianni Pittella, a fellow Italian from the Social Democrats. There were abstentions from 80 MEPs. Four rounds of...