Sabrina Repp

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Sabrina Repp
MEP
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Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Personal details
Born (1999-02-01) 1 February 1999 (age 26)
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]

Early life and career

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]

References

  1. "Europawahl 2024: Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Federal Returning Officer.
  2. "Sozialdemokraten bitten in Güstrow zum Gespräch". Nordkurier . April 22, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Unsere Europaabgeordnete: Sabrina Repp". SPD Lübtheen.
  4. "EU-Kandidatin Repp will Sitz für die SPD in Brüssel holen". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. May 21, 2024.
  5. "Überraschung bei MV-SPD: Kandidatin für EU-Wahl vorn auf Bewerberliste". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. January 26, 2024.
  6. Ramp, Pele. "Rostock: Sabrina Repp ist SPD-Kandidatin für Wahl zum Europaparlament". www.ostsee-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  7. NDR. "Überraschung bei MV-SPD: Kandidatin für EU-Wahl vorn auf Bewerberliste". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  8. "SPD-Europapolitikerin Barley macht Kandidatin aus MV Mut". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-09-08.