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There are fourteen vice-presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the president in presiding over the plenary of the European Parliament.
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There are fourteen vice-presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the president in presiding over the plenary of the European Parliament.
Vice-presidents are members of the Bureau and chair the plenary when the president is not in the chair. The president may also delegate any duty, task or power to one of the vice-presidents. Three vice-presidents, designated by the Conference of Presidents, traditionally have more power than the others; the right to be on the conciliation committee. [1]
The vice-presidents are elected following the election of the president, which takes place every two and a half years or when necessary if positions become vacant. [2]
Elected (unopposed) in order of precedence;
| Members | Group | State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca | EPP-ED |  Spain |
| 2 | Antonios Trakatellis | EPP-ED |  Greece |
| 3 | Dagmar Roth-Behrendt | PES |  Germany |
| 4 | Edward McMillan-Scott | EPP-ED |  United Kingdom |
| 5 | Ingo Friedrich | EPP-ED | Germany |
| 6 | Mario Mauro | EPP-ED |  Italy |
| 7 | António Costa | PES |  Portugal |
| 8 | Luigi Cocilovo | ALDE | Italy |
| 9 | Jacek Saryusz-Wolski | EPP-ED |  Poland |
| 10 | Pierre Moscovici | PES |  France |
| 11 | Miroslav Ouzký | EPP-ED |  Czech Republic |
| 12 | Janusz Onyszkiewicz | ALDE | Poland |
| 13 | Gérard Onesta | Greens/EFA | France |
| 14 | Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann | EUL/NGL | Germany |
Elected (unopposed) in order of precedence; [3]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou | EPP-ED | Greece | 322 |
| 2 | Alejo Vidal-Quadras | EPP-ED | Spain | 300 |
| 3 | Gérard Onesta | Greens/EFA | France | 285 |
| 4 | Edward McMillan-Scott | EPP-ED | United Kingdom | 274 |
| 5 | Mario Mauro | EPP-ED | Italy | 262 |
| 6 | Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez | PES | Spain | 260 |
| 7 | Luigi Cocilovo | ALDE | Italy | 234 |
| 8 | Mechtild Rothe | PES | Germany | 217 |
| 10 | Pierre Moscovici | PES | France | 207 |
| 11 | Manuel António Dos Santos | PES | Portugal | 193 |
| 12 | Diana Wallis | ALDE | United Kingdom | 192 |
| 13 | Marek Siwiec | PES | Poland | 180 |
| 14 | Adam Bielan | UEN | Poland | 128 |
Elected in order of precedence; [4]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giovanni Pittella | S&D | Italy | 360 |
| 2 | Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou | EPP | Greece | 355 |
| 3 | Stavros Lambrinidis | S&D | Greece | 346 |
| 4 | Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez | S&D | Spain | 327 |
| 5 | Alejo Vidal-Quadras | EPP | Spain | 308 |
| 6 | Dagmar Roth-Behrendt | S&D | Germany | 287 |
| 7 | Libor Rouček | S&D | Czech Republic | 278 |
| 8 | Isabelle Durant | Greens/EFA |  Belgium | 276 |
| 9 | Roberta Angelilli | EPP | Italy | 274 |
| 10 | Diana Wallis | ALDE | United Kingdom | 272 |
| 11 | Pál Schmitt | EPP |  Hungary | 257 |
| 12 | Edward McMillan-Scott | Non-attached [5] | United Kingdom | 244 |
| 13 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 237 |
| 14 | Silvana Koch-Mehrin | ALDE | Germany | 186 |
| Changes since election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed member | Group | State | Date | Reason | Replacement | Elected | Group | State |
| Pál Schmitt | EPP | Hungary | 14 May 2010 | Resigned due to becoming president of Hungary | László Tőkés [6] | May 2010 | EPP |  Romania |
| Silvana Koch-Mehrin | ALDE | Germany | 11 May 2011 | Resigned due to doctorate plagiarism scandal | Giles Chichester | 6 July 2011 | ECR | UK |
Elected in order of precedence; [7]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gianni Pittella | S&D | Italy | 319 |
| 2 | Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez | S&D | Spain | 295 |
| 3 | Anni Podimata | S&D | Greece | 281 |
| 4 | Alejo Vidal-Quadras | EPP | Spain | 269 |
| 5 | Georgios Papastamkos | EPP | Greece | 248 |
| 6 | Roberta Angelilli | EPP | Italy | 246 |
| 7 | Othmar Karas | EPP |  Austria | 244 |
| 8 | Edward McMillan-Scott | ALDE | United Kingdom | 239 |
| 9 | Isabelle Durant | Greens/EFA | Belgium | 238 |
| 10 | Alexander Alvaro | ALDE | Germany | 235 |
| 11 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 230 |
| 12 | Oldřich Vlasák | ECR | Czech Republic | 223 |
| 13 | Jacek Protasiewicz | EPP | Poland | 206 |
| 14 | László Surján | EPP | Hungary | 188 |
Elected in order of precedence; [8]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Tajani | EPP | Italy | 452, Round 1 |
| 2 | Mairead McGuinness | EPP |  Ireland | 441, Round 1 |
| 3 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 437, Round 1 |
| 4 | Ramón Luis Valcárcel | EPP | Spain | 406, Round 1 |
| 5 | Ildikó Pelczné Gáll | EPP | Hungary | 400, Round 1 |
| 6 | Adina Vălean | EPP | Romania | 394, Round 1 |
| 7 | Corina Crețu | S&D | Romania | 406, Round 2 |
| 8 | Sylvie Guillaume | S&D | France | 406, Round 2 |
| 9 | David Sassoli | S&D | Italy | 394, Round 2 |
| 10 | Olli Rehn | ALDE |  Finland | 377, Round 3 |
| 11 | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | ALDE | Germany | 365, Round 3 |
| 12 | Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | Austria | 319, Round 3 |
| 13 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | Greece | 302, Round 3 |
| 14 | Ryszard Czarnecki | ECR | Poland | 284, Round 3 |
| Changes since election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed member | Group | State | Date | Reason | Replacement | Elected | Group | State |
| Corina Crețu | S&D | Romania | October 2014 | Resigned due to becoming European Commissioner | Ioan Mircea Pașcu | November 2014 | S&D | Romania |
| Olli Rehn | ALDE | Finland | May 2015 | Resigned due to becoming Minister of Economic Affairs of Finland | Anneli Jäätteenmäki | May 2015 | ALDE | Finland |
Elected in order of precedence;
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mairead McGuinness | EPP | Ireland | 466, Round 1 |
| 2 | Bogusław Liberadzki | S&D | Poland | 378, Round 1 |
| 3 | David Sassoli | S&D | Italy | 377, Round 1 |
| 4 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 336, Round 1 |
| 5 | Sylvie Guillaume | S&D | France | 335, Round 1 |
| 6 | Ryszard Czarnecki | ECR | Poland | 328, Round 1 |
| 7 | Ramón Luis Valcárcel | EPP | Spain | 323, Round 1 |
| 8 | Evelyne Gebhardt | S&D | Germany | 315, Round 1 |
| 9 | Pavel Telička | ALDE | Czech Republic | 313, Round 1 |
| 10 | Ildikó Pelczné Gáll | EPP | Hungary | 310, Round 1 |
| 11 | Ioan Mircea Pașcu | S&D | Romania | 517, Round 2 |
| 12 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | Greece | 469, Round 2 |
| 13 | Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | Austria | 441, Round 2 |
| 14 | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | ALDE | Germany | 393, Round 2 |
| Changes since election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed member | Group | State | Date | Reason | Replacement | Elected | Group | State |
| Ildikó Pelczné Gáll | EPP | Hungary | 1 September 2017 | Resigned due to joining the European Court of Auditors | Lívia Járóka | 15 November 2017 [9] | EPP | Hungary |
| Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | Austria | 23 October 2017 | Resigned from politics after a defeat in national elections | Heidi Hautala | 26 October 2017 [10] | Greens/EFA | Finland |
| Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | ALDE | Germany | 23 October 2017 | Resigned due to becoming member of the Bundestag | Fabio Massimo Castaldo | 15 November 2017 [9] | EFDD | Italy |
| Ryszard Czarnecki | ECR | Poland | 7 February 2018 | Removed from office due to serious misconduct [11] | Zdzisław Krasnodębski | 1 March 2018 [12] | ECR | Poland |
Elected in order of precedence; [13]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mairead McGuinness | EPP | Ireland | 618, Round 1 |
| 2 | Pedro Silva Pereira | S&D | Portugal | 556, Round 1 |
| 3 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 516, Round 1 |
| 4 | Katarina Barley | S&D | Germany | 516, Round 1 |
| 5 | Othmar Karas | EPP | Austria | 477, Round 1 |
| 6 | Ewa Kopacz | EPP | Poland | 461, Round 1 |
| 7 | Klára Dobrev | S&D | Hungary | 402, Round 1 |
| 8 | Dita Charanzová | RE | Czech Republic | 395, Round 1 |
| 9 | Nicola Beer | RE | Germany | 363, Round 1 |
| 10 | Lívia Járóka | EPP | Hungary | 349, Round 1 |
| 11 | Heidi Hautala | Greens/EFA | Finland | 336, Round 1 |
| 12 | Marcel Kolaja | Greens/EFA | Czech Republic | 426, Round 2 |
| 13 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | Greece | 401, Round 2 |
| 14 | Fabio Massimo Castaldo | NI | Italy | 285, Round 3 |
| Changes since election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed member | Group | State | Date | Reason | Replacement | Elected | Group | State |
| Mairead McGuinness | EPP | Ireland | October 2020 | Resigned due to becoming European Commissioner | Roberta Metsola | November 2020 | EPP |  Malta |
Elected in order of precedence; [14]
| Members | Group | State | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Othmar Karas | EPP | Austria | 536, Round 1 |
| 2 | Pina Picierno | S&D | Italy | 527, Round 1 |
| 3 | Pedro Silva Pereira | S&D | Portugal | 517, Round 1 |
| 4 | Ewa Kopacz | EPP | Poland | 467, Round 1 |
| 5 | Eva Kaili | S&D | Greece | 454, Round 1 |
| 6 | Evelyn Regner | S&D | Austria | 434, Round 1 |
| 7 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 432, Round 1 |
| 8 | Katarina Barley | S&D | Germany | 426, Round 1 |
| 9 | Dita Charanzová | RE | Czech Republic | 406, Round 1 |
| 10 | Michal Šimečka | RE |  Slovakia | 494, Round 2 |
| 11 | Nicola Beer | RE | Germany | 410, Round 2 |
| 12 | Roberts Zīle | ECR |  Latvia | 403, Round 2 |
| 13 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | Greece | 492, Round 3 |
| 14 | Heidi Hautala | Greens/EFA | Finland | 304, Round 3 |
| Changes since election [15] [16] [17] [18] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Group | State | Date | Reason | Replacement | Elected | Group | State |
| Eva Kaili | S&D | Greece | December 2022 | Expelled following her arrest amid Qatar corruption scandal investigation | Marc Angel | January 2023 | S&D |  Luxembourg |
| Michal Šimečka | RE | Slovakia | October 2023 | Gave up his EP mandate to lead the domestic opposition following the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election | Martin Hojsík | October 2023 | RE | Slovakia |
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