Aboubakar Soumahoro | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 13 October 2022 | |
| Constituency | Emilia-Romagna |
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| Born | 6 June 1980 Bétroulilié Lakota, Ivory Coast |
| Nationality | Ivorian-Italian |
| Political party | Green and Left Alliance (until 2023) Independent (since 2023) |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
| Occupation | Trade unionist |
Aboubakar Soumahoro (born 6 June 1980) is an Italian-Ivorian[1] trade unionist, labor activist and politician, elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the 2022 Italian election.[2] He has advocated for labor rights of migrant farmers in Italy.[3]
Biography[edit]
Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétroulilié in the Ivory Coast.[4] The arrival in Italy takes place in 1999, at the age of 19.[5] He graduated in 2010 in sociology at the University of Naples Federico II with a score of 110/110 with a thesis on "Social analysis of the labor market. The condition of migrant workers in the Italian labor market: persistence and changes".[5]
Political career[edit]
In the general elections of 2022, Green Europe offers Soumahoro the candidacy as an independent in the Chamber of Deputies in the context of the Greens and Left Alliance list.[6] Soumahoro is a candidate in the single-member constituency of Modena for the centre-left, obtaining 36.01% and being unexpectedly defeated by the centre-right candidate Daniela Dondi (37.44%).[7] Thanks to further candidacies as leaders of Greens and Lef Alliance in the multi-nominal constituencies Veneto 1 - 01, Apulia 02, Lombardy 1 - 01, Emilia Romagna 02, he was elected in the last three and was assigned, according to the electoral law, to the latter.
Following administrative irregularities that have occurred[8] in the cooperatives managed by his mother-in-law and his partner and the launch of judicial investigations by the Latina Public Prosecutor's Office,[9] on 24 November 2022 Soumahoro decided to suspend himself from the parliamentary group of the Greens and Left Alliance, in order to clarify his position, reaffirming his extraneousness to the whole affair.[10]
On 9 January 2023 Soumahoro left the Green-Left Alliance, citing lack of solidarity and unwillingness to politically help him during the investigation.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Italy's unlikely pop leftist". POLITICO. 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ "Aboubakar Soumahoro, the Ivorian trade unionist shaking up Italy". The Africa Report.com. 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
- ^ "In Italy, A Migrants' Advocate Fights For The 'Invisibles'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ "Sciopero della fame fuori Villa Pamphili: chi sono e cosa chiedono i braccianti incatenati". Money.it (in Italian). 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ a b Stefanovichj, Silvia (27 July 2010). "A colloquio con Aboubakar Soumahoro, responsabile immigrazione nazionale RdB-USB" (PDF).
- ^ "Ilaria Cucchi e Aboubakar Soumahoro candidati con Sinistra Italiana e Verdi". Open (in Italian). 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ "Sinistra sconfitta a Modena e Ravenna, fuori Soumahoro e Bakkali". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/soumahoro-dal-2017-al-2022-mezzo-milione-di-sanzioni-per-le-coop-della-suocera-e-della-compagna-akdst7lt
- ^ "Aboubakar Soumahoro, indagata la suocera per malversazione. Ispettori del ministero nelle coop di Sezze e Latina". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ Rainews, Redazione di (2022-11-24). "Aboubakar Soumahoro si è autosospeso dal gruppo di Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra". RaiNews (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ https://www.open.online/2023/01/09/camera-soumahoro-gruppo-misto-dossier-indagini/
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