Marietta Karamanli (

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: Μαριέττα Καραμανλή, born 18 December 1964 in

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) is a French politician who has been a member of the

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since 2007, representing the

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department. Excluded from the Socialist Party, she joined the NUPES coalition in April 2022.

Political career

In parliament, Karamanli serves on the Committee on Legal Affairs. In November 2018, she co-authored (with

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) a parliamentary report on digital taxation. In addition to her role in parliament, Karamanli has been serving as member of the French delegation to the

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(PACE) since 2007. She is a member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by

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(Monitoring Committee) and the Sub-Committee on External Relations. In this capacity, she has served as the Assembly's

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on the access by detainees to a lawyer (2017) and on the protection provided to victims of terrorism (since 2019). From 2014 until 2016, Karamanli served as General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the Abolition of the

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.Death penalty: concern at the latest events in Belarus and Russia

, press release of March 20, 2015. In that role, she publicly condemned plans of the Russian

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to introduce capital punishment for certain crimes relating to terrorism in March 2015. Ahead of the

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, Karamanli ran against the outgoing mayor

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, the official PS candidate. As a consequence, Karamanli's membership in the Socialist Party was suspended for a year.

Political positions

In July 2019, Karamanli voted against the French ratification of the

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’s

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(CETA) with

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.Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019)
CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés
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References

1964 births Living people Greek emigrants to France Politicians from Athens Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic {{Sarthe-politician-stub