Aboubakar Soumahoro | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 13 October 2022 | |
Constituency | Emilia-Romagna |
Personal details | |
Born | Bétroulilié Lakota, Ivory Coast | 6 June 1980
Nationality | Ivorian-Italian |
Political party | Green and Left Alliance (until 2023) Independent (since 2023) |
Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
Occupation | Trade unionist |
Aboubakar Soumahoro (born 6 June 1980) is an Italian-Ivorian[1] trade unionist, labor activist and politician, elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the 2022 Italian election.[2] He has advocated for labor rights of migrant farmers in Italy.[3]
Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétroulilié in the Ivory Coast.[4] The arrival in Italy takes place in 1999, at the age of 19.[5] He graduated in 2010 in sociology at the University of Naples Federico II with a score of 110/110 with a thesis on "Social analysis of the labor market. The condition of migrant workers in the Italian labor market: persistence and changes".[5]
In the general elections of 2022, Green Europe offers Soumahoro the candidacy as an independent in the Chamber of Deputies in the context of the Greens and Left Alliance list.[6] Soumahoro is a candidate in the single-member constituency of Modena for the centre-left, obtaining 36.01% and being unexpectedly defeated by the centre-right candidate Daniela Dondi (37.44%).[7] Thanks to further candidacies as leaders of Greens and Lef Alliance in the multi-nominal constituencies Veneto 1 - 01, Apulia 02, Lombardy 1 - 01, Emilia Romagna 02, he was elected in the last three and was assigned, according to the electoral law, to the latter.
Following administrative irregularities that have occurred[8] in the cooperatives managed by his mother-in-law and his partner and the launch of judicial investigations by the Latina Public Prosecutor's Office,[9] on 24 November 2022 Soumahoro decided to suspend himself from the parliamentary group of the Greens and Left Alliance, in order to clarify his position, reaffirming his extraneousness to the whole affair.[10]
On 9 January 2023 Soumahoro left the Green-Left Alliance, citing lack of solidarity and unwillingness to politically help him during the investigation.[11]