Talk:List of members of the European Parliament (2024–2029)

List of Italian MEPs

Hello everyone! Just so you know, I'm working on a draft for the official list of the Italian MEPs: the final results haven't been published yet, because apparently the local electronic systems in Rome decided to just crash completely, and so officers had to start counting the votes from almost the whole city all over again.

Still, most of the seats have already been secured, and the biggest dilemmas involve candidates who have been elected in multiple constituencies, so the list I've compiled is pretty much reliable. I still have to fill some information in the gaps for each candidate, but you can start adding the table to this page, if you'd like to! Oltrepier (talk) 09:26, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@PLATEL, Dajasj, Cassandro, and Moondragon21: I forgot to tag some of the people who might be interested, whoops... Oltrepier (talk) 09:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

On another note, it might be worth merging "Elected" and "Current" columns to one column, by using rowspan. See List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 2019–2024. There is less duplication and also less color, and if there are multiple switches you can also see that. Dajasj (talk) 09:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Dajasj Thank you for the suggestion! So, in that case, we'll duplicate rows, rather than columns, in order to reflect party switches, right? Oltrepier (talk) 10:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but by merging the cells between rows, nothing should have to be duplicated! Dajasj (talk) 10:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Maybe I understand something wrong here but how will the suggested way show so-called open list candidates who are not members of given party but are affiliated to it? (e. g. Carola Rackete or Bernard Guetta) Cassandro (talk) 11:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cassandro In those cases, I guess we could just add a basic note stating they're independent candidates, or affiliated to minor parties who have linked up with major ones (in Italy, Marco Tarquinio is a good example of this last situation). Oltrepier (talk) 11:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Elected but did not take seat

Adding a point here: I think it should be shown if people were elected but did not take their seats, even if as a note to given MEP who got the seat instead. It is valuable information I think, also in regard of the previous topic (Italian MEPs). Cassandro (talk) 11:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cassandro I agree! On a side note, it should be said that the Italian elections mostly reflect a (very bad) habit by national party leaders, which is running for the seat themselves, in order to take advantage of their popularity and give their lists a vote boost, despite knowing they won't be able to serve in the role in the first place... Oltrepier (talk) 12:04, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Sure but there are other countries where party leaders put themselves as list leader for boosting given list but already tell that they stay home (e. g. Croatia or Hungary). Cassandro (talk) 14:36, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cassandro That's true... Oltrepier (talk) 16:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC)