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Slovakia will have two representatives in the 20-member Presidency of the European Parliament

by AI | 17.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The vote on the EP quaestors took place on Wednesday, by secret ballot in two rounds. Slovak MEP Miriam Lexmann (EPP) received enough votes in the first round.

Slovak MEP Miriam Lexmann (KDH) was elected EP quaestor on June 17, 2024. PHOTO TASR - Martin Baumann

STRASBOURG – Members of the European Parliament (EP) on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 16-17) in Strasbourg, during the inaugural session of the new EU legislative assembly, elected a new presidency including the president, 14 vice-presidents and five quaestors. Slovakia will have two representatives in the 20-member EP presidency, reports TASR correspondent.
On Tuesday, in a secret ballot, 11 vice-presidents were first elected in the first round, including Slovak MEP Martin Hojsík (RE), and three others in the second round.
In practice, this means that, similar to the previous legislative term of the EP, Slovakia will have two members of the presidency – Vice-President Martin Hojsík from the liberal Renew Europe (RE) group and Quaestor Miriam Lexmann from the European People’s Party (EPP) camp.
In the second half of the current European Parliament’s term, from January 2027 to June 2029, there could be changes in the composition of the presidency, but until then the new vice-presidents (in order of vote counts) will be: Sabine Verheyen (Germany), Ewa Kopacz (Poland), Esteban González Pons (Spain), Katarina Barley (Germany), Pina Picierno (Italy), Victor Negrescu (Romania), Martin Hojsík (Slovakia), Christel Schaldemose (Denmark), Javi López (Spain), Sophie Wilmès (Belgium), Nicolae Ștefăna (Romania), Roberts Zīle (Latvia), Antonella Sberna (Italy) and Younous Omarjee (France).
The quaestors for the first half of the 10th European Parliament will be: Andrej Kovačev (Bulgaria), Marc Angel (Luxembourg), Miriam Lexmann (Slovakia), Fabienne Keller (France) and Kosma Złotowski (Poland).
MEPs from the so-called pro-European families – the EPP, socialists, liberals and greens – did not allow candidates from the factions Patriotes for Europe and ESN, which include populist, far-right, eurosceptic or pro-Russian parties, into the presidency.