David-Maria Sassoli elected new head of EU Parliament

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

ANKARA (AA) - David-Maria Sassoli was elected the EU Parliament's new president on Wednesday, the EP's Twitter account announced.

Sassoli was the candidate of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) for the position and was elected by the votes of the members of the EU Parliament.

Before today he was the parliament's vice-president.

Sassoli, a former journalist, was born in Florence in 1956 and in 2009 was elected an MEP from Italy's leftist Democratic Party.