President of the European Parliament

The President of the European Parliament is the head of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President has to sign that EU laws and the EU budget can become valid.

Presidents serve two-and-a-half-year terms. This time is normally divided between the two major political parties of the European Parliament. There have been twenty-eight Presidents, since the Parliament was created in 1952. Thirteen of whom have served since the first Parliamentary election in 1979. Two Presidents have been women and most have come from the older member states.

List of Elected President of the European Parliament
N.PortraitPresidentStateTook officeLeft officePartyGroupElectionRefs 1 130px Simone Veil 17 July 197919 January 1982 UDF Liberal Democrats1979   2 130px Piet Dankert 19 January 198224 July 1984 PvdA Socialists   3 130px Pierre Pflimlin 24 July 198420 January 1987 UDF / RPR European People's Party1984   4 130px C. Henry Plumb 20 January 198725 July 1989 Conservative European Democrats   5 130px Enrique Barón Crespo 25 July 198921 January 1992 PSOE Socialists1989   6 130px Egon Klepsch 21 January 199219 July 1994 CDU European People's Party   7 130px Klaus Hänsch 19 July 199414 January 1997 SPD Party of European Socialists1994   8 130px José María Gil-Robles 14 January 199720 July 1999 PP European People's Party   9 130px Nicole Fontaine 20 July 199915 January 2002 UMP European People's Party1999   10 130px Pat Cox 15 January 200220 July 2004 Independent Liberal Democrats   11 130px Josep Borrell 20 July 200416 January 2007 PSOE Party of European Socialists2004   12 130px Hans-Gert Pöttering 16 January 200714 July 2009 CDU European People's Party   13 130px Jerzy Buzek 14 July 200917 January 2012 PO European People's Party2009   14 130px Martin Schulz 17 January 201217 January 2017 SPD Socialists & Democrats  2014 15 130px Antonio Tajani 17 January 20173 July 2019 FI European People's Party   16 130px David Sassoli 3 July 201911 January 2022† PD Socialists & Democrats2019   17 130px Roberta Metsola 18 January 2022Incumbent PN European People's Party 

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