Luxembourg MEP Marc Engel, newly elected Vice-President of the European Parliament;
Credit: European Parliament
Luxembourg MEP Marc Angel has been elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.
Following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday 18 January 2023, Marc Angel was selected to replace former Vice-President Eva Kaili (Greece) who was ousted following a money laundering and corruption scandal.
Luxembourg's Marc Angel was elected to the position on the second ballot, having gone up against French MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield and Italian MEP Annalisa Tardino.
Marc Angel, who (like his predecessor, Eva Kaili) is a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, secured 307 of the 590 votes cast in the second voting round; Annalisa Tardino received 185 votes, whilst Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield received 98.
Marc Angel represents the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) in the Grand Duchy and is one of six Luxembourg MEPs.
