Guido Reil

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Guido Reil
MEP
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Reil in 2017
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
2 July 2019 [1] [2]
Personal details
NationalityGerman
Political party Alternative for Germany (2016-present)
Social Democratic Party of Germany (before 2016)

Guido Reil is a German politician who is serving as an Alternative for Germany Member of the European Parliament. [3]

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Career

Reil grew up in a modest family and became a miner after leaving high school. He was a foreman at the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop before training as a locksmith. Reil was also a union leader. [4] He was a member of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for twenty six years and was elected as a councilor for the party in Essen in 2009. However, he withdrew his SPD membership in 2016 in protest at the party's immigration policies and disagreements with Essen's SPD chairman Thomas Kutschaty. As a member of the SPD, Reil had attended to organise a demonstration against the construction of a migrant centre in Essen, however, the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Hannelore Kraft intervened and got the event canceled. [5] [6]

Reil joined the AfD in 2016 and ran in the 2017 German federal election in the directly elected constituency of Essen II where he finished third and was not elected. [7] [8] In the 2019 European Parliament election he was elected as number 2 on the AfD's list behind Jörg Meuthen. Reil's campaigned focused on the "rescue of the Ruhr area" and preventing the European Union from taking more powers. [9] [10]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reil visited Ukraine and declared solidarity with Ukraine, alongside MP Kay Gottschalk, comprising a minority in the otherwise pro-Russian AfD. [11]

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  2. ↑ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  4. ↑ Frédéric Schwilden (13 May 2019). "Guido Reil: Der traurigste Mann der AfD". welt.de . Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  5. ↑ Florian Gathmann (27 January 2016). "SPD-Kommunalpolitiker "Meine Partei spielt der AfD in die Karten"". Spiegel Online . Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  6. ↑ Frank Stenglein, Wolfgang Kintscher: Essener Ex-SPD-Ratsherr Guido Reil will der AfD beitreten, WAZ, 1. Juli 2016.
  7. ↑ Frank Stenglein: Kein Mandat – Guido Reil will nun in den AfD-Bundesvorstand, WAZ, 25. September 2017.
  8. ↑ Bundestagswahl – So hat der Wahlkreis 119 Essen II gewählt, WAZ, 25. September 2017.
  9. ↑ Daniel Sobolewski: „Brüssel ist ein Irrenhaus!“ Guido Reil erklärt Kandidatur für das Europa-Parlament – und plant eine eigene „Sendung mit der Maus“ Archived 18 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine , DerWesten, 6. Oktober 2018.
  10. ↑ W. Kintscher: AfD-Frontmann Guido Reil kandidiert fürs Europa-Parlament, Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 23. September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Alternative for Russia: How the AfD is systematically turning towards Russia". correctiv.org. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.


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