Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People since 2019 and European Commissioner for Trade since 2020. He previously served as European Commissioner for Financial Stability,Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 2016 to 2020 and Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014.
Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician who served as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since January 2022,having been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),which in turn affiliates with the European People's Party.
Manfred Weber is a German politician who has been serving as President of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2022 and as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament since 2014. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU),part of the European People's Party.
Roberta Metsola is a Maltese politician who has served as the president of the European Parliament since January 2022. She is a member of Malta's Nationalist Party (PN) and the European People's Party (EPP).
Élisabeth Morin-Chartier is a French politician of the Agir party who served as Member of the European Parliament for the West France constituency from 2009 European election until 2014. Before joining Agir in 2018,she was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and the Republicans (LR).
Esther M. R. de Lange is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 2007 and 2024. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),part of the European People's Party (EPP),she was elected as delegation leader in the European Parliament at a party conference on 2 November 2013 in Leeuwarden,a position she assumed the following year. In July 2014 she was elected as Vice President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and in June 2018 as Vice President of the EPP Party. De Lange stepped down as MEP in February 2024.
Maria João RodriguesGOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament. She was Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) from 2014 until 2019,and since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS),succeeding Italian politician Massimo d'Alema.
Jeroen Lenaers is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal,part of the European People's Party.
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024,in the XXIV Constitutional Government,led by Luís Montenegro.
Željana Zovko is a Bosnian and Croatian diplomat and politician. Since 2016,she has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Croatia.
Dolors Montserrat i Montserrat is a Spanish lawyer and politician who serves as Member of the European Parliament. Previously,she served as Minister of Health,Social Services and Equality of Spain from 2016 to 2018,when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government.
Victor Negrescu is a Romanian politician of the Social Democratic Party. He is a Member of European Parliament and he was Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the government of Romania between 2017 and 2018. Since 2007,he is the president and national coordinator of the Romanian network of PES activists.
Andreas Schieder is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Pedro Manuel Dias de Jesus Marques is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament between 2019 until July 2024. He was the vice-president for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. He previously served as Secretary of State for Social Security,between 2005 and 2011,and as Minister of Planning and Infrastructure in the government of Prime Minister António Costa,between 2015 and 2019.
Maria da Graça Martins da Silva Carvalho is a Portuguese professor,engineer,and politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister of Environment and Energy in the government of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro since 2024.
The ninth European Parliament was elected during the 2019 elections and sat until the tenth European Parliament was sworn in on 16 July 2024.
Francisco Guerreiro is a Portuguese politician currently serving as an independent Member of the European Parliament for Portugal,having been elected whilst standing as a candidate for People Animals Nature.
JoséManuel Ferreira Fernandes is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has been Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the government of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro since 2024.
Ana Lídia Fernandes Oliveira Pereira is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She is also president of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,who is barred from running for a third term.
