Anne-Marie Mineur Explained

Anne-Marie Mineur
Honorific-Suffix:MEP
Term Start:1 July 2014
Term End:2 July 2019
Constituency:Netherlands
Office1:Member of the States of Utrecht
Term Start1:11 March 2011
Term End1:1 July 2014
Birth Date:14 May 1967
Birth Place:Oss, Netherlands
Party:Socialist Party
European United Left–Nordic Green Left

Anne-Marie Mineur (born 14 May 1967) is a Dutch politician who was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands between 2014 and 2019. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. Previously Mineur was municipal councillor in De Bilt (2006–2012) and member of the States of Utrecht (2011–2014).

Career

Mineur was born on 14 May 1967 in Oss, where she would also receive her primary and secondary education. She graduated high school in 1986 and then started studying speech and language-technologies at Utrecht University. In 1989–1990 she went on exchange to the University of Essex and she graduated from Utrecht University in 1992.[1] From 1993 to 1997 she went to Saarland University to study computational linguistics. Mineur was a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence between 1996 and 1997. In 1998 she returned to Utrecht University to become a researcher until 2004, she would move on that year to the University of Groningen to become a researcher and lecturer.[1]

Political career

Mineur joined the Socialist Party in 2003 and in 2006 she became member of the municipal council of De Bilt, where she would serve until 2012. By March 2011 she concurrently became member of the States of Utrecht, which she would stay until she became member of the European Parliament on 1 July 2014. In the States of Utrecht she was party leader.[1]

European Parliament

Mineur occupied the third place on the Socialist Party list for the European Parliament elections of 2014, the party obtained two seats with Mineur elected on the basis of 52,000 preferential votes.[1] [2] Hereby she won the seat over Eric Smaling.[3] In her campaign she criticized the transfer of competences over issues such as pensions and social rent to the European Union.[2]

In the European Parliament she was member of the Committee on International Trade and member of the Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee.[4] Her term in office ended on 2 July 2019.[1]

Electoral history

Year! scope="col" rowspan=2
BodyPartyVotesResult.
Party seatsIndividual
2014European ParliamentSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 3style=text-align:right 52,187style=text-align:right 2
2015Provincial Council of UtrechtSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 33style=text-align:right 500style=text-align:right 4
2019Provincial Council of UtrechtSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 28style=text-align:right style=text-align:right 2
2021House of RepresentativesSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 46style=text-align:right 127style=text-align:right 9
2002De Bilt Municipal CouncilSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 29style=text-align:right style=text-align:right
2024European ParliamentSocialist Partystyle=text-align:right 7style=text-align:right 1,370style=text-align:right 0[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drs. A.M.C. (Anne-Marie) Mineur . Parlement.com . Dutch . 25 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Biltse Anne-Marie Mineur (SP) naar Europa . Dutch . Biltsche Courant . 28 April 2014 . 25 January 2015.
  3. Web site: Wie komt in het Europees Parlement en ten koste van wie ging dat? . Dutch . . 25 January 2015.
  4. Web site: Anne-Marie Mineur . European Parliament . 25 January 2015.
  5. Web site: Proces-verbaal centraal stembureau uitslag verkiezing Europees Parlement Model P22-1 . Dutch Electoral Council . nl . 18 August 2024 . PDF . 19 June 2024 . Central electoral council report of the results of the election of the European Parliament Model P22-1 . 8, 62–63 .