Molly Scott Cato

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Molly Scott Cato

Sarah Margaret "Molly" Scott Cato (born May 21, 1963 ) is a British politician ( Green Party of England and Wales ). She was a member of the European Parliament from May 2014 and was re-elected in 2019.

Life

education

Scott Cato grew up in Bath in the south of England and studied philosophy , politics and economics at Oxford University . After having worked for a publishing house in the meantime, she received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth . She wrote her doctoral thesis on labor market policy in South Wales.

Political commitment

In 1988 Scott Cato joined the Anglo-Welsh Greens and ran in vain in the British general election in 1997 and 2005 for a seat in the House of Commons . Jackie Lawrence from the Labor Party won this title in 1997 and Stephen Crabb from the Conservatives in 2005 .

After moving to Stroud , a small town in the hilly Cotswolds in south-west England , she was elected to the Stroud City Council for the Greens in the local elections in 2011 for the Greens. A year later, Scott Cato took over the chairmanship of the Greens and relied on close cooperation with the Labor Party and the Liberal Democrats .

Change to the European Parliament

In 2014 her party nominated her for the 2014 European elections . In the election, she was elected MEP for her constituency of South West England with 11.1 percent. She joined the group The Greens / EFA . In the eighth legislative period (2014–2019) she was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development . Furthermore, she was a member of the "Investigation Committee to examine alleged violations of Union law and abuses in the application of the same in connection with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion", in the special committee on financial crime, tax evasion and tax avoidance , as well as a deputy member in the special committee on tax rulings and others Measures of a similar nature or effect .

In the 2019 European elections, she ran again in the European constituency of South West England and defended her mandate with 18.21 percent of the vote. She rejoined the Greens / EFA group, for which she was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and an alternate member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development .

reception

Scott Cato takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis ; they signed in October 2018 an open letter to the British government a failure in climate protection is accused of the Extinction rebellion , too civil disobedience calling on the climate issue grassroots movement, is supported and a decarbonisation of the economy is required. She is also a co-signer of an open letter published in December 2018, in which politicians are accused of having failed to address the crisis, called on to join movements like Extinction Rebellion and called on people to stop consuming.

Private

Molly Scott Cato lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire with her three children .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 8th legislative term | Molly SCOTT CATO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Home | Molly SCOTT CATO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alison Green et al. a. (2018). Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take action. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/facts-about-our-ecological-crisis-are-incontrovertible-we-must-take-action
  4. ↑ Act now to prevent an environmental catastrophe. The Guardian, December 9, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott Cato, Molly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott Cato, Sarah Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Green Party), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1963