Aboubakar Soumahoro

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Aboubakar Soumahoro
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Soumahoro in 2022
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 October 2022
Alma mater University of Naples Federico II
OccupationTrade unionist

Aboubakar Soumahoro (born 6 June 1980) is an Ivorian-born [1] Italian politician, trade unionist and activist who is serving as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Emilia-Romagna constituency since 2022. [2]

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He is known for his advocacy regarding labor rights of migrant farmers in Italy. [3]

Early life and education

Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétroulilié, Ivory Coast. [4] He came to Italy in 1999, at the age of 19. [5] He graduated from the University of Naples Federico II in 2010 with a degree in Sociology, earning a score of 110/110 with his thesis, titled “Social Analysis of the Labor Market: The Condition of Migrant Workers in the Italian Labor Market—Persistence and Changes”. [5]

Career

Trade unionist

Political career

Member of the Chamber of Deputies

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]

Electoral history

2022 Italian general election
ConstituencyPartyElectoral listVotesResultRef
Emilia-Romagna Independent AVS Elected via Proportional listYes check.svgYElected [12]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Italy's unlikely pop leftist". POLITICO. 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  2. ↑ "Aboubakar Soumahoro, the Ivorian trade unionist shaking up Italy". The Africa Report.com. 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  3. ↑ Poggioli, Sylvia (5 August 2020). "In Italy, A Migrants' Advocate Fights For The 'Invisibles'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. 1 2 Stefanovichj, Silvia (27 July 2010). "A colloquio con Aboubakar Soumahoro, responsabile immigrazione nazionale RdB-USB" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Ilaria Cucchi e Aboubakar Soumahoro candidati con Sinistra Italiana e Verdi". Open (in Italian). 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  7. ↑ "Sinistra sconfitta a Modena e Ravenna, fuori Soumahoro e Bakkali". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  8. ↑ "Soumahoro: Le multe alle cooperative sono di quasi mezzo milione".
  9. ↑ "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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Soumahoro, addio a Fratoianni e Bonelli: «Stupito per assenza di solidarietà». La sua verità sui soldi delle coop: «Accanimento contro di me perché faccio paura»". 9 January 2023.
  12. ↑ "Elezioni politiche 2022 – Camera dei deputati". elezioni.interno.gov.it (in Italian). Italian Ministry of the Interior . Retrieved 25 September 2022.


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