Sayyad Karim
Sajjad Haider Karim (born July 11, 1970 in Blackburn ) is a British politician and has been a MEP for Northwest England since 2004 . He was elected for the Liberal Democrats , on November 26, 2007 he moved to the Conservative Party . On December 12th of the same year he became a member of the Group of the European People's Party - European Democrats . Sajjad Karim is of Muslim faith and his ancestors are from Pakistan .
Karim studied law at the College of Law (CoL) in Chester . After his bar exam in 1994, he became a solicitor at the Supreme Court of England and Wales . In the same year he became a member of the Pendle parish council , of which he was a member until 2001. In the 2004 European elections he was elected as one of two Liberal Democrats for Northwest England .
In November 2007 Karim switched to the Conservatives. As a reason he gave personal admiration for their party leader David Cameron ; a Liberal Democrat spokesman said Karim left the party disappointed that he only got second place in the list for Northwest England. In the 2009 European elections he was re-elected. Like all members of the Conservative Party, he belongs to the 2009 group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). After the 2014 European elections , he ran as the top candidate of the ECR for the office of President of the European Parliament and received 101 votes.
Web links
- Entry on Sajjad Karim in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Times Online, November 26, 2007: Lib Dem attacked Cameron just weeks before defecting to Tories
- ↑ Lucke: The Presidency of the European Parliament is Martin Schulz's leftover meal ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Karim, Sayyad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karim, Sajjad Haider (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blackburn , Lancashire , United Kingdom |