Florent Marcellesi (born 1979) is a French politician and activist based in

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. Federal Co-Spokesperson of

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from 2020 to 2024, he previously served as

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from 2016 to 2019.

Biography

Born on 10 April 1979 in

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, France, he is son to a Corsican father and a Polish mother. He studied road engineering in Lyon, and urbanism at

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in Paris as well as

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at the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country (, ''EHU''; , ''UPV''; officially EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Deusto, University of Bilbao, initial ...

. Involved with the French Greens since 2002, Marcellesi, based in

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since 2004, later joined , a Green party operating in the Basque Country, running as leading candidate of the latter's party in the 2007 Bilbao municipal election. He also promoted the "Platform for Decent Housing" as well as became a member of ''Desazkundea'', a group advocating for

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positions. One of the members of the foundational committee that created

in 2011, in March 2014 Marcellesi won the party primaries intended to determine the leading candidate for the upcoming May 2014 European Parliament election in Spain. Thus, he ran second in the Primavera Europea coalition list after Jordi Sebastià (from Compromís). He became a member of the

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on 11 October 2016, following the early renouncement of Sebastià (already agreed as part of the 2014 coalition deal between Compromís and Equo). Integrated within the

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political group (Greens/EFA), Marcellesi served as member of the

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, the

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is a committee of the European Parliament. Membership Chair 9th Term Vice Chairs * Eugenia Rodríguez Palop * Sylwia Spurek * Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi * Radka Maxova 7th Term ...

, the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. Equo members elected Marcellesi as Federal Co-Spokesperson of the party along

Inés Sabanés Inés Sabanés Nadal (born 1953) is a Spanish eco-socialist politician. She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019. Biography Born on 24 June 1953 in Cubells, province of Lleida. She moved to Madrid to ...

in February 2020.

References

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