Buzek new President of European Parliament
Ararat News –Publishing (ANP) – Fiona Lorin / Roni Alasor, Brussels – 14 / 7 / 2009 – For the first time in the history of the European Parliament (EP), a politician from ex-communist country is elected for President of the EP. Jerzy Buzek, 69 years old, is Polish member of the European People's Party (EPP). He was elected with 86 % of the votes (555 votes) on the first session of the new European Parliament in 2009. His concurrent, the Swedish politician Mrs. Eva-Britt Svensson (GUE/NGL) received only 89 votes. Buzek has been member of the Polish dissident movement Solidarnost and Prime Minister of Poland in 1997- 2001.
Mr. Buzek was elected President of the European Parliament for the next two and a half years. The next President of EP will be member of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats until 2014. It was a compromise between the two biggest political groups in EP.
Mr. Jerzy Buzek will share the President responsibilities with the newly elected 14 Vice-Presidents of the EP. They are from Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Hungary. Five of them are women. Five are members of the right European People's Party (EPP); four are from the left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (former PSE); two are members of the centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe. The smaller political groups of the Greens and the newly created Group of European Conservatives and Reformists have each one vice-president.
The Members of the European Parliament also established the new composition of the parliamentarian committees. The European Parliament will continue its sessions in September 2009.
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