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Aboubakar Soumahoro | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 13 October 2022 | |
Constituency | Emilia-Romagna |
Personal details | |
Born | BétrouliliéLakota,Ivory Coast | 6 June 1980
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]
Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétrouliliéin 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]
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]