Leïla Chaibi (born 5 October 1982) is a French politician of Tunisian origin who was elected as a

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Early life and education

Leïla Chaibi graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Toulouse. She then gets closer to militant networks fond of symbolic modes of action with strong media resonance, such as She is one of the founders of the collective l'Appel et la Pioche, known especially for

Political career

Long apart from classical political organizations, she joined the

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in 2009, when that party was founded, alongside

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. She left this party in February 2011 to join the Left Party and became the Left Party's national secretary for the abolition of the precariat. As a member of the Left Party's National Campaign Council for the 2012 Presidential Election, she coached

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for the occupation of the

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. In 2012, she was a candidate in the

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in the 10th constituency of Paris. For the 2014 municipal elections, she was the candidate of the Left Party for the mayor of the

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. In 2016, she took part in Nuit debout. In 2017, she was a candidate in the

in the 10th constituency of Paris for

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. She was on the ballot in the first round with 14.62% of the vote, in 2nd place, and she was beaten in the 2nd round with 39.89% of the votes. During the

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, she was in third place on

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's list of candidates. In April 2023, Chaibi announced that she was pregnant.

References

1982 births Living people Politicians from Dijon French people of Algerian descent MEPs for France 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for France La France Insoumise MEPs {{France-MEP-stub