Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco elected as President of Inter-Parliamentary Union for 2020-2023

Portugal has won the elections for the post the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the voting of which was held on 2nd November 2020.
Duarte Pacheco of Portugal has been elected as the new President of 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.
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.
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is based in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1889. It consists of representatives from the National Parliaments of 179 countries.