The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe honors with a minute of silence, at the opening of its first plenary session in 2022, the memory of David Sassoli, the President of the European Parliament who died on 11 January.
"David Sassoli was a staunch European, an indefatigable defender of human rights, and a dear friend of this assembly," said Boriss Cilevic, the Latvian socialist parliamentarian, who presides over his colleagues until the election of the new president of the assembly. of the Council of Europe.
Two candidates are in the running, the president of the party of the European united left, the Dutch Tiny Kox, and the president of the Ukrainian delegation Mariia Mezentseva of the European People's Party.