Tokia Saïfi

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Tokyo Saïfi (2014)

Tokia Saïfi (born July 11, 1959 in Hautmont , Département Nord ) is a French politician ( DL , UMP , Agir ). She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2019 .

Life

Saïfi is the fourth of ten children of a steel worker who immigrated to France from Algeria in 1948. She graduated from Lille II University in 1984 with a law degree . Three years later she founded the civil rights association Espace intégration .

In the local elections in Lille in 1995, she entered the Lille City Council on the RPR list. In the European elections in 1999 she was elected to the European Parliament as a candidate for the Democratie Liberale party. There she sat in the EPP-ED Group and was Deputy Chair of the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf States . In 2002 the DL merged with the RPR to form the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), to which Saïfi subsequently belonged. From May 2002 to June 2004 she was State Secretary for Sustainable Development in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin .

In the 2004 European elections she was re-elected to the European Parliament. She was a member of the Committee on International Trade 2004–2011, was a delegate for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen, from 2004–09, to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly in 2004–2014 and again for relations with the Mashreq countries in 2009–14 . From 2008 Saïfi was deputy chairman of the Parti radical valoisien , a small party associated with the UMP. However, when the Parti radical separated from the UMP in 2011, Saïfi stayed in the latter. From 2011 to 2012 she was Deputy Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament, then until 2014 she was an ordinary committee member.

After her re-election as a member of the European Parliament, from 2014 to 2019 she was Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Trade and the Delegation for Relations with the Maghreb Countries and the Union of the Arab Maghreb . At the end of 2017, she helped found the Agir party , which brings together former members of Les Républicains (successor party to the UMP) who support Emmanuel Macron's presidency against the party line .

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  1. ^ Website of the European Parliament

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personal data
SURNAME Saïfi, Tokyo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (UMP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hautmont