Kati Piri | |
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| Member of theHouse of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 31 March 2021 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 31 March 2021 | |
| Constituency | Netherlands |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1979-04-08)8 April 1979 (age 46) Celldömölk, Hungary |
| Political party |  Dutch:Labour Party  EU:Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Alma mater | University of Groningen |
| Website | www |
Kati Piri (born 8 April 1979) is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician serving as a member of theHouse of Representatives since 2021. A member of theLabour Party (PvdA), she previously was aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) within theProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2014 until 2021.[1]
Piri was born in on 8 April 1979 inCelldömölk,Hungary. She attended the Christelijk Gymnasium (Christian Gymnasium, Dutch type grammar school with classical languages) inUtrecht between 1991 and 1997. Piri studied the first years ofpedagogy at theUniversity of Groningen between 1998 and 2000 and then switched to international relations, graduating in 2007.[2] During her studies, she briefly interned withFrans Timmermans’ parliamentary office in theHouse of Representatives.[3]
Piri worked as a political advisor to the DutchLabour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) delegation in theEuropean Parliament between 2006 and 2008. In that latter year, she became political advisor for foreign policy to the European Parliament group the Labour Party is in, theProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[2] She worked as an advisor to the delegation working on relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 2011 Piri worked some months at theWiardi Beckman Stichting, a think tank linked to the Labour Party. Later that year she became programme manager for the Southern-Caucasus and Moldova at theNetherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.[2]
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In 2014 Piri stood as a candidate for the European Parliament. She occupied the third place on theLabour Party list for theEuropean Parliament elections of 2014, afterPaul Tang andAgnes Jongerius. She cited upholding democratic standards and the respect for human rights as internal motivations to take up the candidacy.[4] She was elected to the European Parliament in May 2014.[2]
In the European Parliament, Piri was a member of theCommittee on Foreign Affairs. During her first term, she served as the Parliament'srapporteur onTurkey'sEU membership.[5] In 2020, she also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[6]
In addition to her committee assignments, Piri was a member of the delegation to the EU–North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. From 2014 until 2019, she was part of the delegation to the EU–Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and Delegation to theEuronest Parliamentary Assembly.[7] She is also part of theEuropean Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.[8]
Piri was a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.[9] She was part of the parliament's mission to observe Ukraine's2014 parliamentary elections, led byAndrej Plenković.[10] Following the2019 elections, Piri was elected vice-chair of the S&D Group, under the leadership of chairwomanIratxe García.[11]
Since the2021 elections, Piri has been a memberHouse of Representatives. She wasre-elected in November 2023 on theGroenLinks–PvdA list, and she became the party's spokesperson for foreign affairs and asylum.[12]
In July 2016, after the2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt and subsequentpurges, Piri called for firm language by the EU towards Turkey.[16] In August 2016 Piri stated that Europe demonstrated a lack of support after the 2016 coup d'état attempt.[17] In November 2016, Turkish authorities refused to have a meeting with Piri in her capacity as Turkeyrapporteur of the European Parliament.[18]
In November 2019 she criticised the veto by theEuropean Council on starting the accession procedures ofAlbania andNorth Macedonia to the EU. She stated that the countries already made significant reforms and it also drove them towards cooperation withChina,Turkey andRussia.[19]
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| Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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| 2017 | House of Representatives | Labour Party | 79[a] | 15 | 9 | Lost | [20] | |
| 2021 | House of Representatives | Labour Party | 5 | 6,330 | 9 | Won | [21] | |
| 2023 | House of Representatives | GroenLinks–PvdA | 4 | 39,245 | 25 | Won | [22] | |
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| Democrats 66 | |
| Party for Freedom | |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | |
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| Christian Union – Reformed Political Party | |
| GroenLinks | |
| Party for the Animals | |
† Hans Jansen died on 5 May 2015. He was replaced by Auke Zijlstra on 1 September 2015. | |
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