Italian socialist David Sassoli has been elected president of the EU Parliament.
The European Parliament has elected Italian socialist lawmaker David Sassoli as its speaker for the next two and a half years.
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Sassoli, 63, was elected after two rounds of votes by lawmakers at the first plenary session of the assembly which emerged from EU elections in May.
Sassoli, a former journalist from Florence, has been a lawmaker in the EU parliament for a decade.
Australian Associated Press