List of presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): the deliberative consultative body of the Council of Europe.
Period | Name | Country | Political affiliation |
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1949 | Édouard Herriot (interim) | ![]() |
Radical Party |
1949–1951 | Paul-Henri Spaak | ![]() |
Socialist Party |
1952–1954 | François de Menthon | ![]() |
Popular Republican Movement |
1954–1956 | Guy Mollet | ![]() |
Socialist Party |
1956–1959 | Fernand Dehousse | ![]() |
Socialist Party |
1959 | John Edwards | ![]() |
Labour Party |
1960–1963 | Per Federspiel | ![]() |
Venstre |
1963–1966 | Pierre Pflimlin | ![]() |
Popular Republican Movement |
1966–1969 | Sir Geoffrey de Freitas | ![]() |
Labour Party |
1969–1972 | ![]() |
Liberal Party | |
1972–1975 | Giuseppe Vedovato | ![]() |
Christian Democracy |
1975–1978 | ![]() |
Social Democratic Party | |
1978–1981 | Hans J. de Koster | ![]() |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
1981–1982 | José Maria de Areilza | ![]() |
Union of the Democratic Centre |
1983–1986 | Karl Ahrens | ![]() |
Social Democratic Party |
1986–1989 | Louis Jung | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
1989–1992 | ![]() |
European Democratic Group | |
1992 | Geoffrey Finsberg | ![]() |
European Democratic Group |
1992–1995 | Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez | ![]() |
Socialist Group |
1996–1999 | Leni Fischer | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
1999–2002 | Lord Russell Johnston | ![]() |
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
2002–2004 | ![]() |
Socialist Group | |
2005–2008 | René van der Linden | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
2008–2010 | ![]() |
Socialist Group | |
2010–2012 | Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu | Turkey | |
2012–2014 | Jean-Claude Mignon | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
2014–2016 | Anne Brasseur | ![]() |
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
2016–2017 | Pedro Agramunt | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
2017-2018 | Stella Kyriakides | ![]() |
Group of the European People's Party |
2018 | Michele Nicoletti | ![]() |
Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group |
2018–present | Liliane Maury Pasquier | ![]() |
Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group |
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