PACE elected a new President

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ПАСЕ избрала нового президентаThe new elected PACE President Stella Kyriakides: in the third round of the representative of the Cyprus Parliament supported 132 members.

President of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected representative of the Parliament of Cyprus Stella Kyriakides, which in the third round supported 132 members of the Assembly, said the first Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, member of the Ukrainian delegation Irina Gerashchenko.

“With the third round finally elected PACE President. They became Stella Kyriakides, which in the third round supported 132 members of the Assembly. In the last round of voting was attended by 217 delegates, 1 ballot was spoiled, 84 supported the Zingeris, 132 voted for MS Kyriakides,” wrote I. Gerashchenko on his page on the social network Facebook on Tuesday.

She noted that the presidency of S. Kyriakides to PACE will be the short – to January 2018.

“MS Kyriakides – member of the Cyprus Parliament, it is from the EPP group (eng. EPP, European People’s Party; Rus. The European people’s party – ed.) but, in fact, acted as the self, because the band EPR majority of votes supported Emmanuel Zingeris. Almost the first time been violated, the principle of quota, the election has become not a formality, and the real vote. Won MS Kyriakides,” wrote I. Gerashchenko.

S. Kyriakides will remain on the post of the PACE President to the opening of the next session of the Assembly in January 2018.

It will become the 30th on account of the PACE President since 1949 and the first representative of Cyprus, who took over the position. In addition, S. Kyriakides – the third woman in a row, who became Chairman of the PACE.

As reported, on October 6, 2017, former President of PACE Pedro Agramunt wrote a letter of resignation, saying I health.

Before that, the European people’s party Group in PACE excluded P. Agramunt from among its members. In addition, PACE has made changes in its own rules of procedure, allowing to shift from a post by P. Agramunt.

The initiative for the resignation of the President of PACE P. Agramunt appeared after the announcement of his visit to Syria in the Russian delegation. Information about this appeared on 20 March 2017. P. Agramunt admitted his mistake, but said that voluntary retirement will not go away.

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