Mace ta farko a cikin shekaru 20 ta nada sabuwar shugabar majalisar EU

Roberta Metsola, wacce ta kasance memba na kungiyar Majalisar Turai Malta tun daga 2013, an nada shi a matsayin sabon shugaban majalisar EU, wanda ya gaji dan siyasar Italiya David Sassoli, wanda ya mutu a ranar 11 ga Janairu, 2022.

Kafin haka, Metsola, mai shekaru 42, ya kasance mataimakin shugaban kasa na farko Majalisar Turai a zamanin Sassoli.

A cikin wani faifan bidiyo da aka saka a Twitter gabanin zabenta, Metsola ta ce "lokacin da za a yi zaben Majalisar Turai mace ce ke jagoranta,” don haka EU na iya aika saƙo mai kyau ga "kowace yarinya mara aure" a fadin nahiyar.

A cikin alƙawarin da ta yi wa 'yan majalisar, Metsola ta ce tana son "sake ɗaukar wannan ma'anar bege da sha'awar" a cikin aikin Turai, tana neman haɗi tare da 'yan ƙasa fiye da "kumfa" na Brussels da Strasbourg.

Lokacin da take yarinya kawai, Metsola ta yi kamfen don Malta ta shiga cikin EU, wanda ta yi a cikin 2004, ta zama ƙasa mafi ƙanƙanta a cikin ƙungiyar da ke da yawan jama'a fiye da 500,000.

Kafin zaben Metsola, da EU Majalisar ta samu shugabannin mata biyu ne kawai, dukkansu daga Faransa, tun lokacin da ta zama zaɓaɓɓen majalisa kai tsaye: Simone Veil daga 1979 zuwa 1982 da Nicole Fontaine daga 1999 zuwa 2002.

Gabanin cikar wa’adin tsayawa takarar da misalin karfe biyar na yamma agogon kasar nan (5:4 GMT) ranar Litinin, ‘yan takara hudu ciki har da Metsola, sun gabatar da sunayensu. Ta doke 'yar kasar Sweden Alice Bah Kuhnke, Kosma Zlotowski ta Poland, da Sira Rego ta Spain.

Mutuwar Sassoli ne ya jawo zaben a ranar 11 ga Janairu, 2022, bayan an kwantar da shi a asibiti da wani mummunan yanayin ciwon huhu da legionella ya haifar kuma ya sami “mummunan wahala saboda rashin aiki na tsarin rigakafi.”