# European Parliament chair entity: /record/european-parliament.md predicate: chair page: /record/european-parliament/chair as_of: 2026-11-01 As of November 1, 2026, European Parliament's chair on the AsOf record is Roberta Metsola, dated January 18, 2022, from 3 primary sources (europarl.europa.eu, web.archive.org and the-president.europarl.europa.eu). The record holds 5 claims on European Parliament's chair, 1 still open and 4 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted. ## Current chair What the record asserts on 2026-11-01. - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | Roberta Metsola | valid 2022-01-18 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6A4C38FD906F](/claim/clm_6A4C38FD906F.md) sources: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/118859/ROBERTA_METSOLA/history/9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889, https://web.archive.org/web/20240720140544id_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240710IPR22805/roberta-metsola-re-elected-as-president-of-the-european-parliament, https://the-president.europarl.europa.eu/en ## Every dated value One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible. - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | Jerzy Buzek | valid 2009-07-14 to 2012-01-17 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_4A9630DC7C01](/claim/clm_4A9630DC7C01.md) | [clm_7B459949FEC3](/claim/clm_7B459949FEC3.md) sources: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/28269/JERZY_BUZEK/history/7, http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/europe/newsid_9678000/9678877.stm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889, https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/en/presidents/jerzy-buzek - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | Martin Schulz | valid 2012-01-17 to 2017-01-17 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_EA0324BDBB4F](/claim/clm_EA0324BDBB4F.md) | [clm_4A9630DC7C01](/claim/clm_4A9630DC7C01.md) sources: https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/en/presidents/antonio-tajani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/1911/MARTIN_SCHULZ/history/7#detailedcardmep, https://web.archive.org/web/20211228211642id_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/former_ep_presidents/president-schulz-2012-2014/en/president/html/biography.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/1911/MARTIN_SCHULZ/history/8#detailedcardmep - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | Antonio Tajani | valid 2017-01-17 to 2019-07-03 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_791416D8C1EF](/claim/clm_791416D8C1EF.md) | [clm_EA0324BDBB4F](/claim/clm_EA0324BDBB4F.md) sources: https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/en/presidents/antonio-tajani, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/2187/ANTONIO_TAJANI/history/8#detailedcardmep, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889 - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | David Sassoli | valid 2019-07-03 to 2022-01-11 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_6A4C38FD906F](/claim/clm_6A4C38FD906F.md) | [clm_791416D8C1EF](/claim/clm_791416D8C1EF.md) sources: https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/en/presidents/david-sassoli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/96864/DAVID+MARIA_SASSOLI/history/9 - [European Parliament](/record/european-parliament.md) | chair | Roberta Metsola | valid 2022-01-18 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6A4C38FD906F](/claim/clm_6A4C38FD906F.md) sources: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/118859/ROBERTA_METSOLA/history/9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8889, https://web.archive.org/web/20240720140544id_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240710IPR22805/roberta-metsola-re-elected-as-president-of-the-european-parliament, https://the-president.europarl.europa.eu/en ## What replaced what - Jerzy Buzek (2009-07-14 to 2012-01-17, [clm_7B459949FEC3](/claim/clm_7B459949FEC3.md)) was replaced by Martin Schulz from 2012-01-17 ([clm_4A9630DC7C01](/claim/clm_4A9630DC7C01.md)) - Martin Schulz (2012-01-17 to 2017-01-17, [clm_4A9630DC7C01](/claim/clm_4A9630DC7C01.md)) was replaced by Antonio Tajani from 2017-01-17 ([clm_EA0324BDBB4F](/claim/clm_EA0324BDBB4F.md)) - Antonio Tajani (2017-01-17 to 2019-07-03, [clm_EA0324BDBB4F](/claim/clm_EA0324BDBB4F.md)) was replaced by David Sassoli from 2019-07-03 ([clm_791416D8C1EF](/claim/clm_791416D8C1EF.md)) - David Sassoli (2019-07-03 to 2022-01-11, [clm_791416D8C1EF](/claim/clm_791416D8C1EF.md)) was replaced by Roberta Metsola from 2022-01-18 ([clm_6A4C38FD906F](/claim/clm_6A4C38FD906F.md)) ## Questions this record answers ### What is European Parliament's current chair? Roberta Metsola, dated January 18, 2022, from 3 primary sources (europarl.europa.eu, web.archive.org and the-president.europarl.europa.eu). The record asserts this claim as of November 1, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95). ### When did European Parliament's chair last change? The latest value on the record is Roberta Metsola, dated January 18, 2022; before it the record holds David Sassoli, dated July 3, 2019 and closed on January 11, 2022. ### What was European Parliament's chair before Roberta Metsola? David Sassoli, valid from July 3, 2019 to January 11, 2022 (status superseded), from 2 primary sources (historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu and europarl.europa.eu). ## Get this data - JSON: /v1/entities/european-parliament/chair (this fact) · /v1/entities/european-parliament?predicates=chair (with the entity's coverage; add as_of=YYYY-MM-DD for a date) - MCP: timeline(entity: "european-parliament", predicates: ["chair"]) for every dated value · fetch(id: "/record/european-parliament/chair.md") for this page - Entity twin: /record/european-parliament.md · timeline: /timelines/european-parliament.md --- AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.