Salima Yenbou

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Salima Yenbou
MEP
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Salima Yenbou in 2019
Member of the European Parliament
for France
Assumed office
2 July 2019 [1] [2]
Personal details
Born (1971-03-14) 14 March 1971 (age 53)
Aubervilliers, France
Political party Cap Écologie (CE)

Salima Yenbou (born 14 March 1971) is a French school administrator and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. [3] [4]

Political career

In parliament, Yenbou has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Culture and Education. In 2022, she joined the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware. [5] [6]

In addition to her committee assignments, Yenbou is part of the Parliament's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. [7] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, [8] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights [9] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara. [10] She is part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. [11]

On 8 March 2022 Yenbou announced that she would be joining the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament after having declared her support to Emmanuel Macron in the run-up of the 2022 French presidential election. [12]

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References

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  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. Cazenave, Fabien (27 May 2019). "Élections européennes. Qui sont les 79 eurodéputés élus en France". Ouest France (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. "L'Eurodéputée Salima Yenbou rejoint Renew Europe qui…". 8 March 2022.
  5. Members of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware European Parliament.
  6. Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees European Parliament, press release of 24 March 2022.
  7. Salima Yenbou European Parliament.
  8. Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity European Parliament.
  9. Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  10. Intergroup on Western Sahara European Parliament.
  11. Members Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
  12. "L'Eurodéputée Salima Yenbou rejoint Renew Europe qui…". 8 March 2022.