Proinsias De Rossa

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Proinsias De Rossa

Proinsias De Rossa (born May 15, 1940 in Dublin ) is an Irish politician and was last member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2012. There he belongs to the group of the Party of European Socialists .

De Rossa was elected to the 23rd Dáil Éireann in February 1982 for the Sinn Féin the Workers Party . A short time later, the party was renamed Workers' Party . De Rossa was re-elected five times and belonged to the Dáil Éireann until 2002.

After arguments within the party in 1992 regarding party members who also belonged to the Official IRA , which was a permanent burden for the party, the party leadership, especially De Rossa, who had been party chairman since 1988, tried the statutes of the To change the party to the extent that alleged members of the OIRA could be excluded from the party. The structures of the party should also be reformed. When this attempt failed because a two-thirds majority had not been achieved, many leaders, including six of the seven party members in the Dáil Éireann, including De Rossa from the Workers' Party, resigned and founded the Democratic Left . De Rossa was elected the first chairman of the new party and was one of the members of the Democratic Left in parliament from the 27th  Dáil Éireann . After the coalition of Fianna Fáil and the Irish Labor Party collapsed in 1994 , a new government coalition was formed, consisting of the Fine Gael , the Labor Party and the Democratic Left. De Rossa was Minister for Social Affairs in this government from December 15, 1994 to June 26, 1997. Bad election results in the 1997 Dáil elections led the party to merge with the Labor Party in 1999. Ruairi Quinn retained his position as chairman of the party, and De Rossa symbolically became party president, which he remained until 2002.

In 1999 De Rossa was elected to the European Parliament for the Labor Party and has been a member since then. From 1989 to 1992 he was a member of the European Parliament for the Workers' Party, and then for a short time for the Democratic Left ; there he had belonged to the coalition of the left until 1991 . However, De Rossa resigned in 1992 and Des Geraghty , Secretary General of the Democratic Left, replaced him. From 1999 to 2004 he was Deputy Chairman of the Party of European Socialists. De Rossa was also a member of the European Constitutional Convention (2002-2003).

In February 2012 he resigned from the European Parliament. The Dublin City Councilor Emer Costello moved up for him.

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  1. ^ Proinsias De Rossa to step down. In: RTÉ News . January 16, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME De Rossa, Proinsias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish politician and MEP for Ireland
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin