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      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: 1976 Electoral Act (EUR-Lex, original text read; consolidated arts. 10-12); European Council Decision (EU) 2023/2061 (EUR-Lex); EP fact sheet 1.3.4 (04-2026); EP press releases 20240527IPR21655 and 20240605IPR21837 and EP article 20240610STO21917; results.elections.europa.eu (2024-2029 data); Wikidata Q127515001",
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          "from": "2029-07-17T07:00:00Z",
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          "basis": "No EU-level proclamation exists: each member state's authority declares its own official result, and the newly elected Parliament 'shall take note of the results declared officially by the Member States' and verifies credentials (1976 Act art. 12) at its constitutive session, which meets without being convened on 'the first Tuesday after expiry of an interval of one month from the end of the' electoral period (art. 11(3)). For a period ending Sunday 10 Jun 2029, one month expires on Tuesday 10 Jul, so the first Tuesday after is 17 Jul 2029 (same case in 2009: period ended Sun 7 Jun, 7 Jul was a Tuesday, and the session opened Tue 14 Jul 2009). 2024 precedent on results.elections.europa.eu: the last member states' final or official results were loaded on 15-16 Jul 2024, the constitutive session opened Tue 16 Jul 2024, and the headline 'Constitutive session' composition carries a last update of 23/07/2024 11:07. The EP itself warned 'It might take several weeks before the final results are known' (10 Jun 2024). The window opens with the 2029 constitutive session (09:00 CEST is an estimate) and closes at the end of Tuesday 31 Jul 2029, CEST, two weeks later, erring late. Individual national final results appear on the EP site from the days after the election, but the Parliament as a whole is not final before then. If the Council moves the electoral period, this date moves with it."
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            "from": "2029-06-10T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-06-11T10:00:00Z",
            "replacedAt": "2029-07-17T07:00:00Z",
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "No EU-wide results may be released before the last member state closes (1976 Act, consolidated art. 10). 2024: the EP said provisional results 'can only be published after 23.00 CEST, when the last voting polls in Italy have closed', and scheduled the first provisional results with a second seat projection around 23.15-23.45 CEST, updates as national authorities report, and the last projection around 01.00 CEST (EP press releases 28 May and 9 Jun 2024). The EP's own summary (10 Jun 2024): 'At the end of the night, a projection ... based on provisional results in 23 countries and estimates and pre-electoral data for the remaining four was published.' Estimates and projections from 18.15 CEST, before the embargo lifts, are the EP's aggregation of national exit polls, not counts, so they are left out of this stage. The window opens at 23:00 CEST (assuming Italy again closes last at that hour; 2029 hours are set nationally) and closes at 12:00 CEST Monday, allowing for a later night than 2024. This is a projected composition from provisional national counts, not the final result.",
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            "from": "2029-07-17T07:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-07-31T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "No EU-level proclamation exists: each member state's authority declares its own official result, and the newly elected Parliament 'shall take note of the results declared officially by the Member States' and verifies credentials (1976 Act art. 12) at its constitutive session, which meets without being convened on 'the first Tuesday after expiry of an interval of one month from the end of the' electoral period (art. 11(3)). For a period ending Sunday 10 Jun 2029, one month expires on Tuesday 10 Jul, so the first Tuesday after is 17 Jul 2029 (same case in 2009: period ended Sun 7 Jun, 7 Jul was a Tuesday, and the session opened Tue 14 Jul 2009). 2024 precedent on results.elections.europa.eu: the last member states' final or official results were loaded on 15-16 Jul 2024, the constitutive session opened Tue 16 Jul 2024, and the headline 'Constitutive session' composition carries a last update of 23/07/2024 11:07. The EP itself warned 'It might take several weeks before the final results are known' (10 Jun 2024). The window opens with the 2029 constitutive session (09:00 CEST is an estimate) and closes at the end of Tuesday 31 Jul 2029, CEST, two weeks later, erring late. Individual national final results appear on the EP site from the days after the election, but the Parliament as a whole is not final before then. If the Council moves the electoral period, this date moves with it.",
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            "note": "European Parliament results site (produced by Verian for the EP), an index, not a page for this election. Checked 25 Sep 2026: it still shows the 2024-2029 results ('The final update to data on this website took place on 6 September 2024'; headline type 'Constitutive session', last update 23/07/2024 11:07) and has no 2029 content. 2024 pages used a term code in the path, e.g. /en/european-results/2024-2029/ and /en/national-results/<country>/2024-2029/, with CSV/Excel at /en/tools/download-datasheets/. No 2029 address is predicted here. The site labels each stage: estimates, projection, provisional, then per member state provisional results, final results ('after all of the votes have been counted'), official results ('proclaimed by the Member State's official election authority and validated by the national legislative authority'), and finally 'Constitutive session' ('Results as officially announced by the newly-elected European Parliament after verification of its Members' eligibility criteria'). Each member state's own authority publishes its national count; those are the national sources.",
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            "url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240605IPR21837/european-elections-2024-publication-of-results-and-other-information-for-media",
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            "note": "EP press release, 9 Jun 2024 08:30 (2024 precedent for election night): 'Provisional European election results can only be published after 23.00 CEST, when the last voting polls in Italy have closed.' National estimates around 18.15 CEST, first projection around 20.15-20.30 CEST (based on estimates, exit polls and pre-election polls), first provisional results and a second projection around 23.15-23.45 CEST, last updated projection around 01.00 CEST; 'All data will be available on the official election results website' (results.elections.europa.eu). The earlier release of 28 May 2024 (20240527IPR21655) gives the same schedule with 23.15-23.30.",
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            "url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/21/the-european-parliament-electoral-procedures",
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            "note": "DATE WORKING (tentative): 2024 period Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 Jun 2024; the corresponding period in 2029 is Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 Jun 2029. Voting runs over four days in different member states; `date` is the Sunday, the last polling day and the first moment EU-wide results may be released. Not fixed: the Council may still set another period (up to two months earlier or one month later) until one year before the term ends, i.e. by about mid-2028 (it did so for 2014, per the fact sheet), and each member state then sets its own day(s) and hours. pollsCloseUtc assumes Italy again closes last at 23:00 CEST (2024 precedent). EP fact sheet 1.3.4 (dated 04-2026, read 25 Sep 2026). Section F: under Articles 10 and 11 of the 1976 Electoral Act as amended, elections are held 'within the same period starting on a Thursday morning and ending on the following Sunday; the exact date and times are set by each Member State'; subsequent elections take place 'in the corresponding period in the final year of the five-year period'; the Council may, 'at least one year before the end of the five-year term', set another period 'not more than two months before or one month after'. 2019: 23-26 May; 2024: 6-9 June. It records no Council decision on a 2029 period. The 2018 amendments (Council Decision 2018/994) have not entered into force (Spain has not ratified). Composition: European Council Decision (EU) 2023/2061 raised the seats from 705 to 720 for 2024.",
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            "note": "1976 Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament, consolidated as amended in 2002 (arts. 10-12). This consolidated page was behind an AWS WAF bot check on 25 Sep 2026 and could not be read from here; the wording below was read in the original 1976 text (CELEX 41976X1008(01), then arts. 9-11, via a text proxy) and the article numbers are those of the consolidated Act as the EP fact sheet uses them. Election period Thursday morning to the following Sunday; results may not be made public before polling has closed in the member state that votes last (the EP's 2024 practice above). Art. 11(3): Parliament 'shall meet, without requiring to be convened, on the first Tuesday after expiry of an interval of one month from the end of the' electoral period. Art. 12: Parliament verifies the credentials of its members and 'shall take note of the results declared officially by the Member States'.",
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            "note": "European Council Decision (EU) 2023/2061 of 22 Sep 2023, art. 3: seats for the 2024-2029 term: BE 22, BG 17, CZ 21, DK 15, DE 96, EE 7, IE 14, EL 21, ES 61, FR 81, HR 12, IT 76, CY 6, LV 9, LT 11, LU 6, HU 21, MT 6, NL 31, AT 20, PL 53, PT 21, RO 33, SI 9, SK 15, FI 15, SE 21 = 720. Art. 4: 'if possible by the end of 2027' Parliament proposes an updated allocation for the 2029-2034 term. No such decision found on 25 Sep 2026, so 720 is the current composition, not a decided 2029 figure (TEU art. 14(2) caps it at 750 plus the President).",
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