Judith Sargentini
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Judith Sargentini MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Netherlands |
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13 March 1974 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Political party |
 Dutch:GreenLeft  EU:The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Website | [1] |
Judith Sargentini (born 13 March 1974 ) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. She is a member of the GreenLeft, part of the European Green Party. Previously she was chair of the GreenLeft in the Amsterdam city council.
Sargentini describes her family as being "politically very aware". As a child, her parents took her to demonstrations against the placement of nuclear weapons in the Netherlands. Between 1986 and 1992 she attended high school at the Spinozalyceum in Amsterdam. After graduating she studied history at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1990 Sargentini was politically active, first in the PSJG, the political youth organization of the left-socialist Pacifist Socialist Party and later in DWARS, the political youth organization of the GreenLeft, a new political party in which the PSP had merged. During her study she was also active in the international student movement. Sargentini is a vegetarian.
She was secretary of the Dutch National Students' Union (between 1995–1996) and board member of the European Students' Union (in 1998).
In 2002 Sargentini was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council. Between 1999 and 2002 she sat as a co-opted assistant on the municipal council. Between 2006 and 2009 Sargentini served as chair of the GreenLeft party in the Amsterdam municipality. She was spokesperson on work & income, youth policy and public order.
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