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Fifth European Parliament

Field	Value
number	5th
previous	Fourth
next	Sixth
start	20 July 1999
end	5 May 2004
president_half_one	Nicole Fontaine
president_half_two	Pat Cox
commission	Prodi
meps	626
election	[June 1999](1999-european-parliament-election)

|vice-presidents= The fifth European Parliament is the fifth five-year term of the elected European Parliament. It began following the June 1999 elections and ended after the June 2004 elections.

The constitutive session was held on Tuesday 20 July 1999. Nicole Fontaine (EPP-ED, France) was elected as President by absolute majority in the first ballot. As oldest member Mário Soares (PES, Portugal) was also candidate, second-oldest member Giorgio Napolitano opened the session instead.

On 15 January 2002, Pat Cox was elected president for the second half of the term.

1999 election results

Main article: 1999 European Parliament election

References

[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+19990720+ITEM-003+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN Debates - Tuesday, 20 July 1999 - Strasbourg], European Parliament

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