Roberta Metsola travels to Lisbon with PSD event on the agenda

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola will travel to Lisbon at the end of the week to speak at a debate at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation on youth political participation and to speak at the PSD National Strategic Council.

Sources from Roberta Metsola’s office told Lusa that the person in charge will travel to Portugal on Friday to attend an event at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation on the topic of youth political participation and the theme “Youth and politics, it’s not all that simple” .

The same sources explained that the leader of the European Assembly was invited to attend the event, which takes place at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, by the President of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, Francisco Manuel dos Santos. Foundation.

On Saturday, Roberta Metsola will speak for about 20 minutes at the National Strategic Council of the PSD, which takes place at the Carcavelos campus of the New University of Lisbon, according to the same sources from the office of the person in charge.

These sources clarified that the President of the European Parliament was invited by the PSD to take part in the event, in which the party’s priorities are defined in 25 thematic areas and has 25 coordinators, of which 15 are independent (non-activist).

The National Strategic Council is an advisory body designed to support the SDP National Directorate in preparing policy ideas and proposals for the country. This time we will talk about the pre-election program for early elections in March next year.

Roberta Metsola was elected in January 2022, becoming the youngest ever President of the European Parliament and the third woman to hold the position since the first European elections in 1979.

Now 44 years old, she is also the first Maltese citizen to preside over the European Parliament.