Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). She obtained an absolute majority in the first round of voting with 165 votes to 125 for the other candidate Robert Walter (United Kingdom, EDG). The President's term of office is one year, renewable once.

She succeeds Jean-Claude Mignon as the 27th President of PACE since 1949, the first Luxembourger and the second woman to take up the post.

"Sixty-nine years ago on this day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated, and as we commemorate the Shoah, we bow our heads to acknowledge the suffering of all the victims of the atrocities committed by the nazi regime. Now, more than ever before, we have a duty to fight for our goals and values and emphasise that they are inalienable and not negotiable. Human rights, democracy and the rule of law know no frontiers and nor must they ever know them," said the new President in her opening address to the PACE (more...).

Press conference
Photo gallery
Inaugural Speech [fr]

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