Parties in the European Council during 2019

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This article describes the party affiliations of leaders of each member state represented in the European Council during the year 2019. The list below gives the political party that each head of government, or head of state, belongs to at the national level, as well as the European political alliance to which that national party belongs. The states are listed from most to least populous. More populous states have greater influence in the council, in accordance with the qualified majority system.

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Party1 January 201929 May3 June6 June27 June8 July
#Pop.%#Pop.%#Pop.%#Pop.%#Pop.%#Pop.%
European People's Party 1028.30%927.23%825.50%825.50%825.50%927.59%
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party 79.59%810.66%810.66%79.59%68.46%68.46%
Party of European Socialists 514.29%514.29%514.29%615.36%716.49%716.49%
Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists 220.38%220.38%220.38%220.38%220.38%220.38%
Party of the European Left 12.09%12.09%12.09%12.09%12.09%00.00%
Independents and Non-Inscrits 325.34%325.34%427.07%427.07%427.07%427.07%

List of leaders (1 January 2019)

Member statePop.% [1] LeaderParty
Germany 16.17% Angela Merkel CDU-EPP
France 13.05% Emmanuel Macron LREM-NI
United Kingdom 12.98% Theresa May Con-AECR
Italy 11.75% Giuseppe Conte Ind.
Spain 9.14% Pedro Sánchez PSOE-PES
Poland 7.40% Mateusz Morawiecki PiS-EACR
Romania 3.78% Klaus Iohannis Ind. [note 1] -EPP
Netherlands 3.37% Mark Rutte VVD-ALDE
Belgium 2.23% Charles Michel MR-ALDE
Greece 2.09% Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA-PEL
Czechia 2.07% Andrej Babiš ANO-ALDE
Portugal 2.00% António Costa PS-PES
Sweden 1.99% Stefan Löfven S-PES
Hungary 1.90% Viktor Orbán Fidesz-EPP
Austria 1.73% Sebastian Kurz ÖVP-EPP
Bulgaria 1.36% Boyko Borisov GERB-EPP
Denmark 1.13% Lars Løkke Rasmussen V-ALDE
Finland 1.07% Alexander Stubb Kok.-EPP
Slovakia 1.06% Peter Pellegrini SMER-SD-PES
Ireland 0.96% Leo Varadkar FG-EPP
Croatia 0.79% Andrej Plenković HDZ-EPP
Lithuania 0.54% Dalia Grybauskaitė Ind.
Slovenia 0.41% Marjan Šarec LMŠ-ALDE
Latvia 0.37% Māris Kučinskis V-EPP
Estonia 0.26% Jüri Ratas K-ALDE
Cyprus 0.17% Nicos Anastasiades DISY-EPP
Luxembourg 0.12% Xavier Bettel DP-ALDE
Malta 0.10% Joseph Muscat PL-EPP
  1. Supported by PNL

Changes

DateStateFormerNewer
LeaderPartyLeaderParty
23 January Latvia Māris Kučinskis V-EPP Krišjānis Kariņš JV-EPP
29 May Finland Alexander Stubb Kok.-EPP Juha Sipilä KESK-ALDE
3 June Austria Sebastian Kurz ÖVP-EPP Brigitte Bierlein Ind.
6 June Finland Juha Sipilä KESK-ALDE Antti Rinne S-PES
27 June Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen V-ALDE Mette Frederiksen A-PES
8 July Greece Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA-PEL Kyriakos Mitsotakis ND-EPP
12 July Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė Ind. Gitanas Nausėda Ind.
24 July United Kingdom Theresa May Con-AECR Boris Johnson Con-AECR
27 October Belgium Charles Michel MR-ALDE Sophie Wilmès MR-ALDE
10 December Finland Antti Rinne S-PES Sanna Marin S-PES

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