European Parliament: 1999-2004 Constitutive session

Distribution of political groups in the European Parliament
Political groups in the European Parliament Number of seats % of seats
EPP-ED - Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats 232 37.06%
PSE - Group of the Party of European Socialists 180 28.75%
ELDR - Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party 50 7.99%
Verts/ALE - Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance 48 7.67%
GUE/NGL - Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 42 6.71%
UEN - Union for Europe of the Nations Group 31 4.95%
TDI - Technical Group of Independent Members - mixed group 18 2.88%
EDD - Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities 16 2.56%
NI - Non-attached Members 9 1.00%

Since 2009, according to Parliament’s rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 25 Members elected in at least seven Member States.

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