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The voters of the Twenty-Seven have chosen the 720 deputies who will sit in Strasbourg and Brussels for five years and will vote on European policies.

A recomposed hemicycle. The European Parliament published, on Sunday June 9, a first estimate of the political distribution of the 720 MEPs elected until 2029 (15 more than during the previous mandate). If 81 of these seats depend on the results of the European elections in France, the rest of the elected officials who will sit in Brussels and Strasbourg will have been elected during the ballots organized in the 26 other member states, between Thursday and Sunday.

The European People’s Party (right), which counts in its ranks the French elected representatives of the Republicans and the German CDU, will remain the most represented group, with 186 seats. The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, which includes the French and Spanish socialists, remains the second largest group in the chamber with 133 seats.

The centrists of the Renew group, which was chaired by Valérie Hayer, the head of the Renaissance list in France, remain in third position with 82 seats. They are ahead of the nationalist group of Conservatives and Reformists, in which the elected representatives of the party of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, sit, with 70 seats. The other far-right group, Identity and Democracy, to which the National Rally belongs, follows with 62 seats.

At the same time, the environmentalists, grouped under the Greens/European Free Alliance banner, are in decline, with 53 seats, compared to 72 in the previous mandate. The La Gauche group, where the elected representatives of La France insoumise sit, obtains 36 seats.

Finally, the non-registered, that is to say the parties which did not belong to any group during the term of office which is ending (including the German far-right party AfD), represent 50 seats. Added to this are unaffiliated parties, which were not represented in the outgoing Parliament and for which it is unknown whether they will join a group: they obtained 50 seats.

This first estimate will be updated by the European Parliament on Sunday evening, as the final results from the 27 member states are published. It does not take into account the possible creation of new groups or recompositions which could take place at the start of the mandate.