Roberta Metsola is a Maltese politician serving as President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Roberta Metsola was first elected to as a Member of the European Parliament in 2013, representing Malta, and became the First Vice-President of the European Parliament in November 2020.
Roberta Metsola Maiden Name
Roberta Metsola’s maiden name is Roberta Tedesco Triccas.
Roberta Metsola Family
Roberta Metsola is married to Finnish Ukko Metsola.
Roberta and her Finnish husband Ukko Metsola (National Coalition Party) both ran for the 2009 European Parliament election, becoming the first married couple to run in the same European Parliament election from two different member states.
Roberta and Ukko Metsola first met in 1999 and married in October 2005 and together, they have four sons.
Roberta Metsola Father
Roberta Metsola’s parents are Rita and Geoffrey Tedesco.
Roberta Metsola CV
Metsola successfully contested the casual election to fill in the vacated seat of Simon Busuttil on 24 April 2013, becoming one of Malta’s first female Members of the European Parliament.
In the Parliament, Roberta Metsola sits as a member of the European People’s Party Group (EPP).
Following her re-election to the Parliament for a full term in 2014, Roberta Metsola was elected as a vice-chair of the Committee on Petitions (PETI) in July 2014.
From 2016 until 2017, Roberta Metsola was part of the Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) that investigated the Panama Papers revelations and tax avoidance schemes more broadly.
Roberta Metsola Nationality
Roberta Metsola is a Maltese.