M'jid El Guerrab | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly for the Ninth Overseas constituency |
Term Start: | 21 June 2017 |
Term End: | 21 June 2022 |
Predecessor: | Pouria Amirshahi |
Birth Date: | 25 April 1983 |
Birth Place: | Aurillac, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | PS (1997-2017) LREM (2017-2018) MR (since 2018) |
Alma Mater: | Sciences Po Aix |
Successor: | Karim Ben Cheïkh |
M'jid El Guerrab (born 25 April 1983) is a French politician of the Radical Movement (MR) who served as a member of the National Assembly since 19 June 2017, representing the 9th district of French people living abroad, which includes the Maghreb and part of West Africa.[1]
El Guerrab, the son of Moroccan immigrants, was born on 25 April 1983 in Aurillac.[2]
El Guerrab joined the Socialist Party at the age of 14.[3] From 2006, he worked on the staff of Ségolène Royal.[4]
In parliament, El Guerrab served on the Defence Committee (2017-2018) and the Finance Committee (2017-2019) before moving to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[5]
In addition to his committee assignments, El Guerrab is part of the French parliamentary friendship groups with Burkina Faso, Liberia and Mali.[6]
After he was indicted in September 2017, El Guerrab was threatened with expulsion from LREM and subsequently announced his departure from the party.[7] [8]
In September 2017, El Guerrab was detained by police after a fight with Socialist Party lawmaker Boris Faure; Faure was hospitalized after El Guerrab hit him with a motorcycle helmet.[9] In 2022 he was sentenced to 3 years in prison for the assault.[10]