7th European Parliament - Political Groups

Political Groups

Further information: Political groups of the European Parliament
See membership below for details of size
Group name Acronym Seats Percent Chairs Vice-Presidents
European People's Party (Christian Democrats) EPP 265 36% Joseph Daul 5
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D 184 25% Martin Schulz 5
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ALDE 84 11.4% Guy Verhofstadt 2
The Greens–European Free Alliance GREENS/EFA 55 7.5% Rebecca Harms
Daniel Cohn-Bendit		 1
European Conservatives and Reformists ECR 54 7.3% Michał Kamiński 0
European United Left–Nordic Green Left GUE-NGL 35 4.8% Lothar Bisky 0
Europe of Freedom and Democracy EFD 32 4.3% Nigel Farage
Francesco Speroni		 0
Non-Inscrits NA 27 3.7% --- 1

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