Elissa Silver

About
Elissa Silver was a Lithuanian politician who served as Speaker of the European Parliament during the 3rd and 4th term. She was also the first member of The Left party to handle this position. She was a part of the 3 members to resign after the scandal with the creation of the political party of the EULD, known nowadays as the EULS.

2nd Election for Speaker of the European Parliament
She took place during the 2nd Election for Speaker of the European Parliament who opposed her to the former Speaker of the European Parliament, John Maroqüe. The results were announced the January 4th 2020 where she won by a landslide with 85% of the votes. This result can be explain by the reputation of the former Speaker of the European Parliament.

Period with the EULD
As a member of the Rainbow Coalition, she left the political party of The Left along with Ronan M. in order to be in a party in full support with the Rainbow Coalition. After the scandal occured, she rejoinded The Left along with Ronan M. and finished her carrier here.

3rd Election for Speaker of the European Parliament
She took part in the 3rd Election for Speaker of the European Parliament in order to be re-elected. Like the precedent one, only 2 candidates runned and strangely was against a member of her own party, Joe.

She won with 61,90% of the votes against Joe with 38,10% of the votes. However, a lot of abstaining occured during this election, showing the decreasing popularity of Elissa Silver and probably also the fact that a part of the European Parliament didn't want a member of The Left for this position. With the abstaining, she won with 44,82% of the votes against Joe with 27,59% of the votes who got the same percentage as the abstain, 27,59%.

Her death
She was found dead the January 18th 2021 inside the office of the Speaker of the European Parliament when a session occured where Adam Adamowski replaced her for the time being. Her death circonstances are still unclear for now but is supposed to be suicide in relation with her popularity decreasing.