Fifth European Parliament
| 5th European Parliament | |
|---|---|
| 1999 – 2004 | |
 | |
| President (1st ½) | Nicole Fontaine |
| President (2nd ½) | Pat Cox |
| Commission | Prodi |
| MEPs | 626 |
| Elections | June 1999 |
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The Fifth European Parliament is the fifth five-year term of the elected European Parliament. It began following the June 1999 elections and ended after the June 2004 elections.
The constitutive session was held on Tuesday 20 July 1999. Nicole Fontaine (EPP-ED, France) was elected as President by absolute majority in the first ballot.[1] As oldest member Mário Soares (PES, Portugal) was also candidate, second-oldest member Giorgio Napolitano opened the session instead.
On 15 January 2002, Pat Cox was elected President for the second half of the term.
1999 election results
| European Parliament election, 1999 - Final results at 20 July 1999 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Description | Chaired by | MEPs | |||
| EPP-ED | Conservatives and Christian Democrats | Hans-Gert Pöttering | 233 |  | ||
| PES | Social Democrats | Enrique Barón Crespo | 180 | |||
| ELDR | Liberals and Liberal Democrats | Pat Cox | 50 | |||
| G–EFA | Greens and Regionalists | Heidi Hautala Paul Lannoye |
48 | |||
| EUL–NGL | Communists and the Far left | Francis Wurtz | 42 | |||
| UEN | National Conservatives | Charles Pasqua | 31 | |||
| EDD | Eurosceptics | Jens-Peter Bonde | 16 | |||
| TGI | Mixed | Gianfranco Dell'Alba Francesco Speroni |
18 | |||
| NI | Independents and Far right | none | 8 | Total: 626 | Sources: | |
References
- ↑ Debates - Tuesday, 20 July 1999 - Strasbourg, European Parliament
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