Samira Rafaela | |
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 Rafaela in 2019 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Parliamentary group | Renew Europe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 February 1989 Zoetermeer,Netherlands |
| Political party | Democrats 66 |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
Samira Rafaela (born 11 February 1989) is a Dutch politician of Democrats 66,who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 [1] [2] and was also a member of the young democrats. [3]
Rafaela grew up with her Jewish Dutch-Curaçaoan mother in Uitgeest. Her father was of Ghanaian-Nigerian descent and a practicing Muslim. She considers herself a progressive,liberal,feminist Muslim. [4]
She attended Bonhoeffer College in Castricum [5] and studied public administration at Leiden University. She did research on the causes of radicalization and terrorism and obtained a master's degree in Crisis and Security Management. [6] She worked as a policy maker and administrative advisor for the municipality of Amsterdam. In 2016,she transferred to the Police Netherlands,where she acted as project leader for inclusion. [7] As a social entrepreneur,she worked in Africa with young talent and as an international trainer and speaker on women's participation,leadership,security and inclusion.
Rafaela was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election,making her the first Dutch MEP with Afro-Caribbean roots. [8] She has been a member of the Committee on International Trade (since 2019),the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (since 2019) [2] and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (since 2021). [9]
In addition to her committee assignments,Rafaela is part of the Parliament's delegations to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) and to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. [2] She also co-chairs the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup and is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital [10] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability. [11] [12]
On 3 May 2022,an internal commission of D66 investigated complaints of 3 former co-workers of the European D66-delegation about,among other things,abuse of power by Rafaela. [13] She was reprimanded,but a mediation committee ruled in November of the same year that the investigation was sloppy and that the reprimanding was unjustified. [14]
In 2023,Rafaela –together with Malin Björk and Evin Incir –alleged in a letter to the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola that their fellow MEPs Anders Vistisen,Isabella Adinolfi and Cristian Terheș breached Parliament's rules on offensive language during a debate on the ratification of the 2011 Istanbul convention against gender-based violence and urged Metsola to investigate. [15] On 21 December 2023,she announced she would not seek re-election in the 2024 European Parliament election. [16]
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