President of the European Parliament

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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 is made up of the President of Parliament and the political group chairmen, and is the body responsible for Parliament's political organisation.

1 List of Presidents of the European Parliament
2 Election of Presidents
- 2.1 6th Term (mid): 16 January 2007
  - 2.1.1 Vice-Presidents
- 2.2 6th term (start): July 20, 2004
  - 2.2.1 Vice-Presidents
3 External links

[edit] List of Presidents of the European Parliament

[edit] Presidents of the Common Assembly, 1952–1958

Dates in office	Name	Group	Country
1952–1954	Paul Henri Spaak	Socialist	Belgium
1954	Alcide De Gasperi (died in office August 19)	Christian Democrat	Italy
1954–1956	Giuseppe Pella	Christian Democrat	Italy
1956–1958	Hans Furler	Christian Democrat	West Germany

[edit] Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly, 1958–1962

Dates in office	Name	Group	Country
1958–1960	Robert Schuman	Christian Democrat	France
1960–1962	Hans Furler	Christian Democrat	West Germany

[edit] Presidents of the appointed Parliament, 1962–1979

Dates in office	Name	Group	Country
1962–1964	Gaetano Martino	Liberal	Italy
1964–1965	Jean Pierre Duvieusart	Christian Democrat	Belgium
1965–1966	Victor Leemans	Christian Democrat	Belgium
1966–1969	Alain Poher	Christian Democrat	France
1969–1971	Mario Scelba	Christian Democrat	Italy
1971–1973	Walter Behrendt	Socialist	West Germany
1973–1975	Cornelis Berkhouwer	Liberal	Netherlands
1975–1977	Georges Spénale	Socialist	France
1977–1979	Emilio Colombo	Christian Democrat	Italy

[edit] Presidents of the directly elected Parliament, 1979-present

Term	Dates in office	Name	Group	Country
1st	1979–1982	Simone Veil	LDR	France
1st	1982–1984	Piet Dankert	Soc	Netherlands
2nd	1984–1987	Pierre Pflimlin	UDF/RPR	France
2nd	1987–1989	Lord Plumb	ED	United Kingdom
3rd	1989–1992	Enrique Barón Crespo	Soc	Spain
3rd	1992–1994	Egon Klepsch	EPP	Germany
4th	1994–1997	Klaus Hänsch	PES	Germany
4th	1997–1999	José María Gil-Robles	EPP	Spain
5th	1999–2002	Nicole Fontaine	EPP	France
5th	2002–2004	Pat Cox	ELDR	Ireland
6th	2004–2007	Josep Borrell Fontelles	PES	Spain
6th	2007–2009	Hans-Gert Pöttering	EPP	Germany

[edit] 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. There is usualy 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).

14 Vice Presidents are elected at the same time. Duties of Vice Presidents (europarl.europa.eu)

[edit] 6th Term (mid): 16 January 2007

European Parliament Press Release on election

Candidates	Group	Country	Votes
Hans-Gert Pöttering	EPP-ED	Germany	450
Monica Frassoni	Greens/EFA	Italy	145
Francis Wurtz	EUL/NGL	France	48
Jens-Peter Bonde	ID	Denmark	46

[edit] Vice-Presidents

Elected (unopposed) January 1, 2007 in order of precedence;

1	Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou	EPP-ED	Greece	322
2	Alejo Vidal-Quadras	EPP-ED	Spain	300
3	Gérard Onesta	Greens/EFA	France	285
4	Edward McMillan-Scott	EPP-ED	United Kingdom	274
5	Mario Mauro	EPP-ED	Italy	262
6	Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez	PES	Spain	260
7	Luigi Cocilovo	ALDE	Italy	234
8	Mechtild Rothe	PES	Germany	217
9	Luisa Morgantini	GUE/NGL	Italy	207
10	Pierre Moscovici	PES	France	207
11	Manuel António Dos Santos	PES	Portugal	193
12	Diana Wallis	ALDE	United Kingdom	192
13	Marek Siwiec	PES	Poland	180
14	Adam Bielan	UEN	Poland	128

[edit] 6th term (start): July 20, 2004

Candidates	Group	Country	Votes
Josep Borrell Fontelles	PES	Spain	388
Bronisław Geremek	ALDE	Poland	208
Francis Wurtz	EUL/NGL	France	51

[edit] Vice-Presidents

Elected (unopposed) July 20, 2004 in order of precedence;

1	Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca	EPP-ED	Spain
2	Antonios Trakatellis	EPP-ED	Greece
3	Dagmar Roth-Behrendt	PES	Germany
4	Edward McMillan-Scott	EPP-ED	United Kingdom
5	Ingo Friedrich	EPP-ED	Germany
6	Mario Mauro	EPP-ED	Italy
7	António Costa	PES	Portugal
8	Luigi Cocilovo	ALDE	Italy
9	Jacek Saryusz-Wolski	EPP-ED	Poland
10	Pierre Moscovici	PES	France
11	Miroslav Ouzký	EPP-ED	Czech Republic
12	Janusz Onyszkiewicz	ALDE	Poland
13	Gérard Onesta	Greens/EFA	France
14	Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann	EUL/NGL	Germany