Roberta Metsola

Roberta Metsola MEP
Metsola in 2022
President of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 January 2022 Acting: 11–18 January 2022
Vice President	Othmar Karas
Preceded by	David Sassoli
First Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office 12 November 2020 – 18 January 2022
President	David Sassoli
Preceded by	Mairead McGuinness
Succeeded by	Othmar Karas
Member of the European Parliament for Malta
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 April 2013
Preceded by	Simon Busuttil
Personal details
Born	Roberta Tedesco Triccas[1] (1979-01-18) 18 January 1979 (age 45) St. Julian's, Malta[citation needed]
Political party	Nationalist Party
Other political affiliations	European People's Party
Spouse	Ukko Metsola ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Malta College of Europe

Roberta Metsola (Maltese: [ɹɔˈbɝta ˈmɛtsɔla]; née Tedesco Triccas; born 18 January 1979) is a Maltese politician. A member of Malta's Nationalist Party (PN) and the European People's Party (EPP), she has been serving as president of the European Parliament since January 2022.^[2]

Metsola was first elected to as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2013, and became the First Vice-President of the European Parliament in November 2020.^[3] Following the death of the incumbent president David Sassoli, Metsola was elected as president of the European Parliament on 18 January 2022,^[2] becoming the youngest ever president,^[4] the first Maltese person to hold the office, and the first female president since 2002.^[5]