President of the European Parliament

President of the European Parliament
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Incumbent Roberta Metsola since 18 January 2022
European Parliament
Style	President[1]
Status	Presiding officer
Member of	European Parliament
Residence	Louise Weiss building
Seat	Strasbourg, France
Appointer	European Parliament
Term length	2.5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Paul Henri Spaak / Robert Schuman[2]
Formation	1952 / 1958[2]
Deputy	Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament
Website	europarl.europa.eu

The President of the European Parliament is the head of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President has to sign that EU laws and the EU budget can become valid.

Presidents serve two-and-a-half-year terms. This time is normally divided between the two major political parties of the European Parliament. There have been twenty-eight Presidents, since the Parliament was created in 1952. Thirteen of whom have served since the first Parliamentary election in 1979. Two Presidents have been women and most have come from the older member states.

1. ↑ English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission (PDF) (8 ed.). European Commission. October 2019. p. 119. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Parliament began either in 1952 with the Common Assembly or 1958 with the Parliamentary Assembly.