Mounir Satouri (born 25 May 1975) is a French politician who was elected as a

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Political career

In the

2017 French Socialist Party presidential primary The French Socialist Party held a two-round presidential primary to select a candidate for the 2017 presidential election on 22 and 29 January 2017. It was the second open primary (''primaires citoyennes'') held by the center-left coalition, aft ...

, Satouri endorsed

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's candidacy. In parliament, Satouri serves on the

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and the

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. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the parliament's delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the

Union for the Mediterranean The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM; french: Union pour la Méditerranée, ar, الإتحاد من أجل المتوسط ''Al-Ittiḥād min ajl al-Mutawasseṭ'') is an intergovernmental organization of 43 member states from Europe and the M ...

and for relations with the

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. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity. In 2020, Satouri joined Sylvie Guillaume,

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and

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in visiting several

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s in northern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

that hold individuals displaced from the

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, including

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and Roj. Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Satouri publicly declared his support for

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as the Greens’ candidate and joined his campaign team as director.

Other activities

* French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), Member of the Board of DirectorsBoard of Directors
French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA).

References

1975 births Living people Politicians from Casablanca MEPs for France 2019–2024 Europe Ecology – The Greens MEPs Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians French anti-racism activists {{France-MEP-stub