Question: Who elects the president of the european parliament?

context: No context provided
question: Who is the group that elects the president of the european parliament?
short_answers: members of Parliament
context: No context provided
question: Who is the party that elects the president of the european parliament?
short_answers: European People's Party (EPP) and Party of European Socialists (PES)

Answer: The President of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. The president is elected by the members of Parliament for a two-and-a-half-year term, meaning two elections per parliamentary term, hence two presidents may serve during any one Parliamentary term. Since the 1980s, the two major parties in the Parliament, the European People's Party (EPP) and Party of European Socialists (PES), have had the custom of splitting the two posts between themselves.