Ninth European Parliament
The ninth European Parliament was elected during the 2019 elections and is slated to remain in session until the forthcoming 2024 elections.
9th European Parliament
David Sassoli (S&D)
Roberta Metsola (EPP) (acting)
Roberta Metsola (EPP)
1st Half:
Mairead McGuinness (EPP)
(until 12 October 2020)
Roberta Metsola (EPP)
(from 12 November 2020)
2nd Half:
Othmar Karas (EPP)
Other Vice-Presidents:
See List
Juncker (until 30 November 2019)
von der Leyen (from 1 December 2019)
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Working bodies[edit]
Standing committees[edit]
MEPs are divided up among 20 standing committees. Each MEP is usually member of one committee and a substitute member of another. Committees discuss legislative proposals from the Commission before the European Parliament decides on them in plenary session. The European Parliament has an equal role to the Council of the EU in the ordinary legislative procedure, which is usually used in decision-making process at the EU level.[33]
Each committee elects its chair and vice chairs to lead the work of the committee. Committee chairs are members of the Conference of Committee Chairs, which coordinates the work of all the committees.[33]
European Parliament has role in the appointment of:[96]
Statistics[edit]
European Parliament statistics[edit]
There are 266 women MEPs, 37.7% of the whole Parliament. Kira Peter-Hansen of Denmark is the youngest MEP at 21, while Silvio Berlusconi (former Prime Minister of Italy), is the oldest at the age of 82. The average age of all MEPs is 50.[100]
387 of current MEPs is newly elected and weren't members of European Parliament before. 295 MEPs were also members of the previous Parliament. 16 of current MEPs held position before, but not between 2014 and 2019.[100]
