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The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. [4] It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [5][6] A total of 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than ...
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament serving in the tenth term (2024–2029). The term began on 16 July 2024. The term began on 16 July 2024. In the preceding European Parliament election , 720 MEPs were elected, up from 705 after reallocating seats which were freed up after Brexit .
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament serving in the ninth term (2019–2024). It is sorted by list position or in cases of multiple constituencies, an English perception of surname treating all variations of de/di/do, van/von, Ó/Ní/Uí, and so forth as part of the collation key, even if this is not the normal practice in a member's own country.
Non-Inscrits. Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. [ 1 ] Until 2019, 751 MEPs [ 2 ] were elected to the European Parliament, which has been directly elected ...
The European Parliament has a high turnover of members compared to some national parliaments. After every recent election, just over half of elected members had not been members in the previous parliament. Elmar Brok served the longest continuous term from the first elections in 1980 until 2019 (39 years).
2019–2024. (list, election, parliament) 2024–2029. (list, election, parliament) v. t. e. Members serving in the European Parliament session from 2019 to 2024, following the 2019 election. For a full single list, see: List of members of the European Parliament 2019–2024.
Current members. EPP – Kok. Between July and December 2024, Viktor Orbán is the head of government of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. Membership in PNL is formally suspended while in office. Klaus Iohannis, however, still regularly attends EPP pre-European Council meetings. [3]
[5] [6] [7] As of 2015, all European Union member states are representative democracies; however, they do not all have the same political system, with most of the differences arising from different historical backgrounds. Many of the states in the neighbourhood of the European Union are not considered to be "free" by the same criteria. [8]