Laura Slimani | |
Office: | President of Young European Socialists |
Term Start: | 11 April 2015 |
Term End: | 7 April 2017 |
Predecessor: | Kaisa Vatanen |
Successor: | João Albuquerque |
Office1: | Leader of the Young Socialist Movement |
Term Start1: | 17 November 2013 |
Term End1: | 19 December 2015 |
Predecessor1: | Thierry Marchal-Beck |
Successor1: | Benjamin Lucas |
Party: | The Ecologists (since 2022) Génération.s (2017–2022) Socialist Party (2010–2017) |
Birth Date: | df=yes 23 August 1989 |
Laura Slimani (born 23 August 1989) is a French politician of The Ecologists. Since 2020, she has served as a deputy mayor of Rouen.[1] From 2013 to 2015, she was the leader of the Young Socialist Movement.[2] From 2015 to 2017, she served as president of Young European Socialists.[3] In the 2019 European Parliament election, she was a candidate for member of the European Parliament.[3]
Slimani joined the Socialist Party in 2010.[4] During the 2017 Socialist Party presidential primary, she served as spokesperson for Benoît Hamon.[5] In September 2017, she left the Socialist Party and joined Hamon's newly founded Génération.s.[6] In the 2020 municipal elections, she ran alongside The Ecologists.[7] During the 2021 Green Party presidential primary, she supported Éric Piolle.[8]