Lukas Sieper (born 22 March 1997) is a German politician who is leader of the Party of Progress. In the

2024 European Parliament election The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. It was the tenth Elections to the European Parliament, parliamentary election since the 1979 European Parliament election, first direct electio ...

, he was elected a

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Biography

Sieper was educated at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer- Gymnasium in Wiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia. between school and university, he undertook voluntary military service in the German Federal Armed Forces. In 2020, he founded the Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress; PdF), a grassroots democratic party. He studied law at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

, during which he undertook an Erasmus semester at Amsterdam University where he studied international and European law. He passed with honours the first law examination in September 2023. Since 2023, he has been a doctoral student in the Department of Public Law, International Law and European Law at the University of Cologne. In the June 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected as an

. He was first on the list for his political party, '' Partei des Fortschritts'' (Party of Progress; PdF), which received 228,148 (0.6%) votes in that election, winning one seat.

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