Fifth European Parliament
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.
| 5th European Parliament | |
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| 20 July 1999 – 5 May 2004 | |
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| President (1st Half) | Nicole Fontaine |
| President (2nd Half) | Pat Cox |
| Commission | Prodi |
| MEPs | 626 |
| Elections | June 1999 |
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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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