Sabrina Repp | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
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| Born | 1 February 1999 Tessin, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (since 2019) |
| Other political affiliations | Party of European Socialists |
| Alma mater | TU Dresden University of Rostock |
Sabrina Repp (born 1 February 1999) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. [1]
Repp was born in Tessin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in 1999. [2] [3] Her father is a painter and her mother is a cleaner. [4] [5] She graduated from TU Dresden with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2021, and from the University of Rostock with a master's degree in political science in 2023. [3] She has been serving as deputy chair of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern branch of Jusos since 2022, and previously served as chair of Jusos in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (2019–2020), and as deputy chair of Jusos in Saxony (2019–2021). [3]
In October 2023, Repp was nominated as the European candidate for the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. [6] In January 2024, she was elected to 11th place on the national SPD list at a conference in Berlin. It is the first time in years that the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been able to secure a safe place on the list. [7] In advance, the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern had reached an agreement with the SPD of Saxony-Anhalt, which continues to not be directly represented in the European Parliament. The Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Manuela Schwesig, and the SPD's top candidate, Katarina Barley, supported Repp's candidacy. [8]
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