Tuesday During the first plenary session, the Pole Jerzy Buzek was elected the 13th President of the European Parliament for the next two and half years. He takes over from the German Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP), which has held this position since January 2007. Opposed to Sweden's Eva-Britt Svensson (Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left), Jerzy Buzek received 555 votes of 644 votes in the first ballot, 86% of the votes of MEPs which met for the first time in plenary meeting since their election in June. This is the first time that figures from Eastern Europe holds that office.
Born July 3, 1940 at Theca Śmiłowice Republic, he studied at the University of Gliwice Technology Silesia in Poland and graduated in chemical engineering in 1963.
In 1980, he joined the Solidarity trade union and a year later he also became president of the National Congress of Solidarity.
Elected in 1997 to the Sejm, the lower house Polish Parliament, the lists of the AWS [The Solidarity Electoral Action (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarnosc pol.) is a gathering of Polish political parties from right conservative from Solidarity (Solidarnosc)], he became Prime Minister of Poland 1999 and brought the country into NATO. It also prepares for accession to the European Union (including decentralization of government and strengthening the role of local authorities).
After the failure in the legislative elections of 2001, when he joined the community arena as an MEP from 2004 to 2009 for Group European People's Party (Christian Democrats). During his tenure, he was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee of European Union-Ukraine. He was elected MEP of the year 2006.
Jerzy Buzek has defined his election as "a tribute to those millions of people who fought for democracy" in Eastern Europe.
Born July 3, 1940 at Theca Śmiłowice Republic, he studied at the University of Gliwice Technology Silesia in Poland and graduated in chemical engineering in 1963.
In 1980, he joined the Solidarity trade union and a year later he also became president of the National Congress of Solidarity.
Elected in 1997 to the Sejm, the lower house Polish Parliament, the lists of the AWS [The Solidarity Electoral Action (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarnosc pol.) is a gathering of Polish political parties from right conservative from Solidarity (Solidarnosc)], he became Prime Minister of Poland 1999 and brought the country into NATO. It also prepares for accession to the European Union (including decentralization of government and strengthening the role of local authorities).
After the failure in the legislative elections of 2001, when he joined the community arena as an MEP from 2004 to 2009 for Group European People's Party (Christian Democrats). During his tenure, he was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee of European Union-Ukraine. He was elected MEP of the year 2006.
Jerzy Buzek has defined his election as "a tribute to those millions of people who fought for democracy" in Eastern Europe.
