Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco elected as President of IPU for 2020-23.
Portugal MP, Duarte Pacheco has won the elections for the post the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The term of the Duarte Pacheco will be from 2020-2023. He will be the 30th President of the IPU and will succeed Mexican MP Gabriela Cuevas Barron who completed the tenure in October 2020.
President of the IPU was selected by unprecedented online election during an extraordinary virtual session of the IPU’s Governing Council.
Mr. Duarte Pacheco has been a Member of Parliament in Portugal since 1991. He has held different functions in Parliament, including as a Member of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese Communities.
Candidates from four countries were in the race for elections. The other three participants were Pakistan’s Muhammad Sanjrani, Uzbekistan’s Akmal Saidov and Canada’s Pakistani origin Salma Ataullahjan.
Important Facts:
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is based in Geneva, Switzerland,
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU): Founded in 1889.
- It consists of representatives from the National Parliaments of 179 countries.
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