Bronis Ropė

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Bronis Ropė (2015)

Bronis Ropė (born April 14, 1955 in Degutėliai , Ignalina Rajongemeinde ) is a Lithuanian politician ( LVŽS ). Ropė was temporarily mayor of the city and later Ignalina district. Since the European elections in 2014 he has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group . He was re-elected in the 2019 election.

Life

In 1979 Bronis Ropė graduated from Kauno politechnikos institutas and became a mechanical engineer. In 1979 he worked as a technologist at Kuro aparatūra in Vilnius , and from 1980 in Dūkštas .

Entry into Lithuanian politics

At the end of the Lithuanian SSR, Ropė began to get involved in politics and was initially deputy mayor from 1990 to 1992, and from 1992 to 1995 administrator (mayor) of Ignalina . From 1995 to 2014 he was the mayor of the Ignalina district.

Bronis Ropė has been the vice-chairman of Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų partija since 2006 .

In 2014, Ropė ran as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election in Lithuania , but did not make it to the second ballot with 4.21 percent.

Change to the European Parliament

In the 2014 European elections , his party, the Union of Farmers and Greens of Lithuania, nominated for first place on the list. With 6.61 percent he was the only member of his party and has been a member of the European Parliament since then. Although his party is neither a member of the European Greens nor the European Free Alliance , he joined the Greens / EFA group . In the eighth legislature, Rope was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a deputy member of the Committee on Regional Development . He was also a deputy in the committee of inquiry into emission measurements in the automotive industry , which met in 2016–2017 .

In the European election 2019 candidate rope again. The party won 12.56 percent of the vote, two of the eleven Lithuanian mandates. He defended his mandate, and his party colleague Stasys Jakeliūnas moved in with him. Ropė and Jakeliūnas rejoined the Greens / EFA group. For the parliamentary group he is again a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Regional Development .

Private

Bronis Ropė is married and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Bronis Ropė  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 8th legislative term | Bronis ROPĖ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Home | Bronis ROPĖ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ropė, Bronis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Degutėliai , Ignalina district municipality