PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT


The 'President of the European Parliament' oversees all the activities of the European Parliament and its constituent bodies. He or she presides over its plenary sittings and chairs the meetings of the Bureau and Conference of Presidents. He or she represents Parliament in all external relations, particularly international relations. The President's role is similar to that of a speaker in a national parliament.
The 'Bureau' is the regulatory body responsible for Parliament's budget and for administrative matters. It consists of the President, fourteen 'Vice-Presidents', and six 'Quaestors' who are responsible for administrative matters relating directly to MEPs. All the members of the Bureau are elected for a period of 30 months, elections being held at the start of and midway through each five-year parliamentary term.
The 'Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament' is made up of the President of Parliament and the political group chairmen, and is the body responsible for Parliament's political organisation.

Contents
List of Presidents of the European Parliament
Pre-election Presidents 1952–1979
Post-election Presidents, 1979–present
Election of Presidents
6th term
See also
References
External links

List of Presidents of the European Parliament


Pre-election Presidents 1952–1979

Dates in officeNameGroupCountry
Presidents of the Common Assembly, 1952–1958
1952–1954Paul Henri SpaakSocialist
1954 (died 19/8)Alcide De Gasperi
Christian Democrat
1954–1956Giuseppe PellaChristian Democrat
1956–1958Hans FurlerChristian Democrat
Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly, 1958–1962
1958–1960Robert SchumanChristian Democrat
1960–1962Hans FurlerChristian Democrat
Presidents of the appointed Parliament, 1962–1979
1962–1964Gaetano MartinoLiberal
1964–1965Jean Pierre DuvieusartChristian Democrat
1965–1966Victor LeemansChristian Democrat
1966–1969Alain PoherChristian Democrat
1969–1971Mario ScelbaChristian Democrat
1971–1973Walter BehrendtSocialist
1973–1975Cornelis BerkhouwerLiberal
1975–1977Georges SpénaleSocialist
1977–1979Emilio ColomboChristian Democrat

Post-election Presidents, 1979–present

TermDates in officeNamePartyEuropean PartyCountry
1°1979–1982Simone VeilUDFELDR
1982–1984Piet DankertPvDAPES
2°1984–1987Pierre PflimlinUDF/RPREPP
1987–1989Charles Henry PlumbCPEPP
3°1989–1992Enrique Barón CrespoPSOEPES
1992–1994Egon KlepschCDUEPP
4°1994–1997Klaus HänschSPDPES
1997–1999José María Gil-RoblesPPEPP
5°1999–2002Nicole FontaineUMPEPP
2002–2004Pat CoxPDELDR
6°2004–2007Josep Borrell FontellesPSOEPES
2007–2009Hans-Gert PoetteringCDUEPP

Election of Presidents


The President requires an overall majority of votes cast in order to be elected. If this is not attained on the first ballot, new candidates can join the second and third ballots, but a fourth ballot is confined to the top two candidates from the third. 14 Vice Presidents are elected at the same time. Duties of Vice Presidents (europarl.europa.eu)
There is usually an agreement between two of the three major parties to share the presidency, it being split into two half-terms. For example in the current 6th term, the European People's Party supported the Party of European Socialists candidate for the first term (2004-2007), and vice versa for the second (2007-2009). During the election of the President, the plenary is presided over by the oldest member of the Parliament, from 2004 this has been Giovanni Berlinguer.
6th term

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'Start: 30 July, 2004;'
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!Candidates!!Group!!Country!!Votes
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|Josep Borrell Fontelles||PES||||align=right|388
|---- bgcolor=#FFFFDD
|Bronisław Geremek||ALDE||||align=right|208
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|Francis Wurtz||EUL/NGL||||align=right|51
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'Vice Presidents'
'Elected (unopposed) in order of precedence;'
{| class="wikitable"
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|1||Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|2||Antonios Trakatellis||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|3||Dagmar Roth-Behrendt||PES||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|4||Edward McMillan-Scott||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|5||Ingo Friedrich||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|6||Mario Mauro||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|7||António Costa||PES||
|---- bgcolor=#FFFFDD
|8||Luigi Cocilovo||ALDE||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|9||Jacek Saryusz-Wolski||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|10||Pierre Moscovici||PES||
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|11||Miroslav Ouzký||EPP-ED||
|---- bgcolor=#FFFFDD
|12||Janusz Onyszkiewicz||ALDE||
|---- bgcolor=#CCFFCC
|13||Gérard Onesta||Greens/EFA||
|---- bgcolor=#FFC0CB
|14||Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann||EUL/NGL||
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'Mid: 16 January 2007;'[1]
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!Candidates!!Group!!Country!!Votes
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|Hans-Gert Pöttering||EPP-ED||||align=right|450
|---- bgcolor=#CCFFCC
|Monica Frassoni||Greens/EFA||||align=right|145
|---- bgcolor=#FFC0CB
|Francis Wurtz||EUL/NGL||||align=right|48
|----- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|Jens-Peter Bonde||ID||||align=right|46
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'Vice Presidents'
'Elected (unopposed) in order of precedence;'
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|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|1||Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou||EPP-ED||||322
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|2||Alejo Vidal-Quadras||EPP-ED||||300
|---- bgcolor=#CCFFCC
|3||Gérard Onesta||Greens/EFA||||285
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|4||Edward McMillan-Scott||EPP-ED||||274
|---- bgcolor=#DDEEFF
|5||Mario Mauro||EPP-ED||||262
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|6||Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez||PES||||260
|---- bgcolor=#FFFFDD
|7||Luigi Cocilovo||ALDE||||234
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|8||Mechtild Rothe||PES||||217
|---- bgcolor=#FFC0CB
|9||Luisa Morgantini||GUE/NGL||||207
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|10||Pierre Moscovici||PES||||207
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|11||Manuel António Dos Santos||PES||||193
|---- bgcolor=#FFFFDD
|12||Diana Wallis||ALDE||||192
|---- bgcolor=#FFE8E8
|13||Marek Siwiec||PES||||180
|---- bgcolor=#E0FFFF
|14||Adam Bielan||UEN||||128
|}
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:''Details of previous elections can be found here''

See also



★ Presidents of the European Union

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★ President-in-Office of the European Council

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★ Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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★ President of the European Commission

References


1. European Parliament Press Release on election

External links



★ Duties of the President europarl.europa.eu

★ Presidents of the European Parliament European Navigator

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