Vice-President of the European Parliament
9th Parliament
Table:
Members

Group

State

Votes

1
Mairead McGuinness
EPP
Ireland
618, Round 1

2
Pedro Silva Pereira
S&D
Portugal
556, Round 1

3
Rainer Wieland
EPP
Germany
516, Round 1

4
Katarina Barley
S&D
Germany
516, Round 1

5
Othmar Karas
EPP
Austria
477, Round 1

6
Ewa Kopacz
EPP
Poland
461, Round 1

7
Klára Dobrev
S&D
Hungary
402, Round 1

8
Dita Charanzová
RE
Czech Republic
395, Round 1

9
Nicola Beer
RE
Germany
363, Round 1

10
Lívia Járóka
EPP
Hungary
349, Round 1

11
Heidi Hautala
Greens/EFA
Finland
336, Round 1

12
Marcel Kolaja
Greens/EFA
Czech Republic
426, Round 2

13
Dimitrios Papadimoulis
GUE/NGL
Greece
401, Round 2

14
Fabio Massimo Castaldo
NI
Italy
285, Round 3

Taking into account the following table as well as the article excerpts provided at the end.

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Mairead McGuinness ( born 13 June 1959 ) is an Irish politician who has served as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2017 . She has been a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from Ireland for the Midlands-North-West constituency since July 2004 . She is a member of Fine Gael , part of the European People 's Party .
The European People 's Party group ( EPP Group ) is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament consisting of deputies ( MEPs ) from the member parties of the European People 's Party ( EPP ) . It sometimes includes independent MEPs and/or deputies from unaffiliated national parties . The EPP Group comprises politicians of Christian-democratic , conservative and liberal-conservative orientation . The European People 's Party was officially founded as a European political party in 1976 . However , the European People 's Party group in the European Parliament has existed in one form or another since June 1953 , from the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community , making it one of the oldest European level political groups . It has been the largest political group in the European Parliament since 1999 .
Manuel Pedro Cunha da Silva Pereira ( 15 August 1962 ) , better known as Pedro Silva Pereira , is a Portuguese politician , lawyer and legal expert . He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 .
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S & D ) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists ( PES ) . The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist Group on 29 June 1953 which makes it the second oldest political group in the European Parliament after the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group ( ALDE ) . It adopted its present-day name on 23 June 2009 . Centre-left in orientation , the group mostly comprises social-democratic parties and is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance . Until the 1999 European Parliament elections , it was the largest group in the Parliament , but since then it has always been the second-largest group . During the 8th EU Parliament Assembly , the S & D was the only Parliament group with representation from all 27 EU member states . In the current EU Parliament the S & D is currently composed of 147 members from 25 member states . In the European Council , 8 out of 27 Heads of State and Government belong to the S & D Group and in the European Commission , 8 out of 27 Commissioners come from PES parties .
Rainer Wieland ( born 19 February 1957 ) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Germany . He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union , part of the European People 's Party .
Katarina Barley ( born 19 November 1968 ) is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 . She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection and as Federal Minister of Family Affairs , Senior Citizens , Women and Youth in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel . Prior to that , she had served as acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 28 September 2017 , both until 14 March 2018 . She is a member of the European Parliament . A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , Barley served as a member of the Bundestag from 2013 until 2019 and was Secretary-General of her party from 2015 to 2017 . She holds law degrees from France and Germany and a doctorate in European law , and formerly worked as a corporate lawyer with the law firm Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler in Hamburg , as a judge and as a governmental legal adviser . Barley holds citizenship of both Germany and Britain .
Othmar Karas ( born 24 December 1957 ) is an Austrian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) since 1999 . He is a member of the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) , which in turn affiliates with the European People 's Party . Karas sits on the European Parliament 's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect . Between 2012 and 2014 , he was one of the vice presidents of the European Parliament . Since the 2019 elections , he has been again serving as one of its vice-presidents ; in this capacity , he is part of the Parliaments leadership under President David Sassoli .
Ewa Bożena Kopacz ( IPA : [ ˈɛva ˈkɔpatʂ ] ( listen ) ; born Ewa Lis on 3 December 1956 ) is a Polish politician and a Vice-President of the European Parliament . She was Prime Minister of Poland and Marshal of the Sejm - the first woman to have held the latter post . In addition , she was Minister of Health from November 2007 until November 2011 . Kopacz has been a member of the Civic Platform since 2001 . Kopacz became Prime Minister on 22 September 2014 , succeeding Donald Tusk ; she is the second woman to hold the office after Hanna Suchocka . [ citation needed ] Prior to entering politics , she was a pediatrician and a general practitioner . Her term ended on 16 November 2015 . Kopacz has been described as one of the leaders of the European Union , and was ranked as the world 's 40th most powerful woman by Forbes magazine in 2015 , placing her ahead of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Ellen DeGeneres .
Klára Dobrev ( born 2 February 1972 ) is a Hungarian politician and is the Vice President of the European Parliament . She is married to former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány . She was born in Sofia , Bulgaria to a Hungarian mother , Piroska Apró , and a Bulgarian father , Petar Dobrev . Her maternal grandfather , Antal Apró , was Hungary 's Minister of Industry in the 1950s-60s . Dobrev holds a degree in economics from the Budapest University of Economics , and a Law degree from the Eötvös Loránd University of Arts and Sciences . During her years at the University of Economics she was a member of AIESEC , and at the organization 's 1992 world conference she was the animator board 's vice president responsible for public relations . Dobrev spent her internship at MODI XEROX as a marketing assistant at Bangalore , India .
Dita Charanzová ( born 30 April 1975 ) is a Czech politician and diplomat who has been Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) since 2014 for the ANO 2011 party .
Renew Europe ( Renew ) is a liberal , pro-European political group of the European Parliament founded for the ninth European Parliament term . The group is the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) group which existed during the sixth , seventh and eighth terms from 2004 to 2019 .
Nicola Beer ( born 23 January 1970 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 .
Lívia Járóka ( born 6 October 1974 , in Tata ) is a Hungarian politician of part Romani ethnicity . She is a Member of the European Parliament , first elected as part of the Fidesz list in 2004 . Járóka is the second Romani ( but the first Romani woman ) ever elected to the European Parliament ; the first was Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia from Spain , who served from 1994 to 1999 . Járóka grew up in Sopron , a town near Hungary 's western border with Austria . Her father is ethnically Roma , her mother Hungarian . After getting an MA in sociology from the Warsaw campus of the Central European University on a scholarship from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute she went on to study anthropology in Britain , focusing on Romani issues and culture . In August 2003 she had a daughter and a son in 2007 . In 2012 she finished her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University College of London . Though a receiver of a scholarship of the Soros-funded Open Society Institute and graduated from the Central European University , Járóka never condemned publicly the anti-Soros campaign organized by her conservative home party Fidesz targeting George Soros and the Central European University .
Heidi Anneli Hautala ( born 14 November 1955 ) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from Finland . She is a member of the Green League , part of the European Green Party . She is currently a Member of the European Parliament for the third time . Previously she held the post from 1995 to 2003 and 2009 to 2011 when she chaired the Subcommittee on Human Rights 2009-2011 . She served as minister for international development and ownership steering issues in Jyrki Katainen 's cabinet .
The Greens/European Free Alliance ( Greens/EFA ) is the political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green and regionalist political parties . Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament , the Greens/EFA group now consists of three distinct European political parties , namely the larger European Green Party ( EGP ) and the European Free Alliance ( EFA ) and the smaller European Pirate Party . The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations , regionalist and minority political interests . The group has generally limited its membership to progressive parties . These European parties are joined by MEPs from non-aligned national parties , which have included the Dutch Europe Transparent ( 2004-2009 ) and the Swedish ( 2009-2014 ) , German ( 2014- ) and Czech ( 2019- ) Pirate Parties .
Marcel Kolaja ( born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová ) is a Czech software engineer , activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) and a Vice-President of the European Parliament since the 2019 election . He is a member of the Greens-European Free Alliance parliamentary group . His political agenda focuses on technological competitiveness of the EU on the world market , corporate lobbying in the EU and corporate tax avoidance , digital rights , censorship , environmental protection and consumer protection . As an activist he has also promoted free software and copyright reform .
Dimitrios Papadimoulis ( Greek : Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης ; born 21 March 1955 ) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) as a member of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left . Born in 1955 in Athens . Graduated with distinction from Varvakeio Junior High School of Athens and studied with scholarship at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA ( National Technical University of Athens ) . He has worked as an engineer and business executive ( 1980-2004 ) . Since the age of 18 and his student days , he participates actively and joins the left movement , where he remains since then .
The European United Left/Nordic Green Left ( French : Gauche unitaire européenne/Gauche verte nordique , GUE/NGL ) is a political group of the European Parliament established in 1995 , and composed of left-wing to far-left members . The group comprises political parties of socialist and communist orientation .
Fabio Massimo Castaldo ( born 18 September 1985 in Rome ) is an Italian politician who serves in the European Parliament since 2014 . On 15 November 2017 he was elected vice-president of the European Parliament to replace Alexander Graf Lambsdorff , becoming the youngest vice president ever in the history of the institution . He was re-elected MEP in the 2019 EP election . On 3 July 2019 he was re-elected Vice-President of the European Parliament , running as an independent with the support of over 40 MEPs belonging to various political groups , as the European delegation of the M5S belonged to the technical grouping of the Non-Inscrits . His election represents the first success of an independent belonging to the Non-Inscrits group .
Non-Inscrits ( [ nɔn.ɛ̃s.kʁi ] ; abbreviated NI ; non-attached members , abbreviated NA ) are Members of the European Parliament ( MEP ) who do not sit in one of the recognised political groups . These MEPs may be members of a national party , or of a European political party , but for a political grouping to be formed in the European Parliament there need to be 25 MEPs from seven different states . Being part of a group grants access to state funds and committee seats , but the group members must be ideologically tied . Groups of convenience , such as the Technical Group of Independents , previously existed , but are no longer allowed , and the minimum requirements for group formation have been raised , forcing less numerous elements to sit as NIs . [ clarification needed ] In the 6th European Parliament 23 right-wing NIs briefly formed the Identity , Tradition , Sovereignty group at the start of 2007 , but it collapsed on 14 November 2007 due to internal disagreements .