Aileen McLeod
Aileen McLeod (born August 24, 1971 in East Kilbride ) is a Scottish politician ( Scottish National Party ). McLeod is a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (2011-2016) and former Scottish Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reforms (2014-2016). From the 2019 European elections until January 31, 2020, she was a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group .
Life
Youth and education
Aileen McLeod was born on August 24, 1971 in East Kilbride , where she also attended Claremont High School . After finishing school, McLeod studied at Edinburgh University . She then received her PhD from the University of Central Lancashire .
politics
McLeod worked for the Scottish Parliament Information Center between 2001 and 2004 . She then worked for MEP Alyn Smith in Brussels and, from 2009, for the SNP MEP in the Scottish Parliament, Michael Russell .
In the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2011 , McLeod ran for the first time for the SNP. In her constituency of Galloway and West Dumfries , however, she could not prevail against the Conservative Alex Fergusson and thus missed the direct mandate. However, since McLeod was also placed on the SNP's regional electoral list for the electoral region of South Scotland , she received one of the four SNP list mandates in this electoral region and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time as a result of the election result .
On November 21, 2014, McLeods was appointed to the cabinet of First Minister Nicole Sturgeon , she took over the environment, climate change and land reforms. She succeeded Paul Wheelhouse , who took on another office in the course of a cabinet reshuffle. In her role as Environment Minister, McLeod took part in the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris .
In 2016 McLeod ran again in the elections for the Scottish Parliament in the constituency of Galloway and West Dumfries . However, she missed the direct mandate by 1,514 votes to Finlay Carson, and did not move into Parliament. Her successor in office, which was demoted to Cabinet Secretary with the Sturgeon Second Cabinet , was Roseanna Cunningham .
In 2019, her party nominated her for the 2019 European elections on the party's third list position in the British European constituency of Scotland. With 37.8 percent of the vote, the SNP won three seats in the constituency, one for McLeod. Like all SNP MPs, she joined the group Die Grünen / EFA , which not only includes parties of the European Green Party , but also the regionalist European Free Alliance . The latter also includes the Scottish National Party. For her group, McLeod was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs .
Private
McLeod lives in Lanark with her partner .
Web links
- Information on the Scottish Parliament website
- Information from the SNP
- Entry on Aileen McLeod in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Home | Aileen McLEOD | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Aileen McLeod ( Memento from October 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLeod, Aileen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Kilbride |