Manfred Weber re-elected to lead the EPP Group; Siegfried Mureșan remains a vice-president

The EPP Group has re-elected Manfred Weber as its leader for the fifth time since his initial election in 2014. Siegfried Mureșan is once again among the ten vice-presidents. They come from ten countries, and together with Weber, from Germany, the leadership represents 11 countries. The group announces 185 members in its 20 October 2026 statement.

German MEP Manfred Weber was re-elected on Tuesday evening, 20 October 2026, as chair of the European People’s Party (EPP) Group in the European Parliament, by an overwhelming majority, according to the group’s statement. The ten vice-presidents were also elected, including Romanian MEP Siegfried Mureșan, who retains his place in the leadership.

In brief

The EPP Group announces that Manfred Weber was re-elected as leader on 20 October by an overwhelming majority. Leader of the group since 2014, he was re-elected for the fifth time.

Siegfried Mureșan (PNL) remains one of the group’s ten vice-presidents. Separately, he is the Parliament’s co-rapporteur for the 2028–2034 EU budget.

The ten vice-presidents come from ten Member States; together with Weber, from Germany, the leadership represents 11 people from 11 countries.

In its 20 October statement, the EPP Group announces that it has 185 members from all EU countries and is the largest group in the European Parliament.

The vote concerns the group’s internal leadership, whose mandate is linked by the rules to that of the President of the Parliament. It does not redistribute the leadership positions of the European Parliament, nor legislative files.

Weber, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has led the group since 2014. The statement specifies that he was re-elected for the fifth time. This refers to the fifth re-election after his initial election, not to his fifth mandate overall.

The list of vice-presidents begins, in the alphabetical order of surnames used in the statement, with François-Xavier Bellamy (France), Andrzej Halicki (Poland), Eszter Lakos (Hungary), Jeroen Lenaers (the Netherlands) and Dolors Montserrat (Spain).

The other five are Siegfried Mureșan (Romania), Massimiliano Salini (Italy), Tomas Tobé (Sweden), Romana Tomc (Slovenia) and Željana Zovko (Croatia). The ten vice-presidents represent ten Member States. Together with Weber, who represents Germany, the leadership team represents 11 people from 11 countries.

In its 20 October statement, the EPP Group describes itself as the largest political group in the European Parliament, with 185 MEPs from all EU Member States. This is the figure announced by the group on the date of the internal elections.

Mureșan, a member of the National Liberal Party, was already listed as a vice-president of the EPP Group at the beginning of the 2024 parliamentary term, according to the history published by the European Parliament. Separately, he is the Parliament’s co-rapporteur for the 2028–2034 multiannual financial framework, alongside Carla Tavares. This responsibility concerns the EU’s future long-term budget and is distinct from the group’s internal political coordination.

The leadership of the EPP Group organises its activities and represents it externally. The group’s rules link the duration of the leadership’s mandate to the effective duration of the mandate of the President of the European Parliament and provide for new internal elections before its end if the mandate ends before the end of the parliamentary term.

The elections of 20 October establish the leadership of the parliamentary group. The positions of President and Vice-President of the European Parliament are positions of the institution as a whole, filled through separate procedures. The EPP’s internal vote does not redistribute them and does not automatically change rapporteur mandates or majorities for legislative files.

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