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.
The 9th European Parliament's constitutive session, Strasbourg (2 July 2019)
Image: Charles Michel (2018 01 31) (cropped)
Image: 2017 09 24 Ursula von der Leyen by Sandro Halank
Image: Josep Borrell 2015 (cropped)
2019 European Parliament election
The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states. In February 2018, the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019. However, the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019; therefore, the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014. The Ninth European Parliament had its first plenary session on 2 July 2019.
Image: (Manfred Weber) EPP Summit, 19 October 2017 (37534170170) (cropped)
Image: 2018 PES Congres (46352554571)
Image: Debate of lead candidates for the European Commission presidency (32917075457)
Image: Speech of the Lead Candidates (47941849351)
