Anne-Marie Mineur | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019 | |
Constituency | Netherlands |
Member of theStates of Utrecht | |
In office 11 March 2011 – 1 July 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1967-05-14)14 May 1967 (age 57) Oss, Netherlands |
Political party | Socialist Party European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
Alma mater | |
Anne-Marie Mineur (born 14 May 1967) is a Dutch politician who wasMember of the European Parliament (MEP) for theNetherlands between 2014 and 2019. She is a member of theSocialist Party, part of theEuropean United Left–Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. Previously Mineur was municipal councillor inDe Bilt (2006–2012) and member of theStates of Utrecht (2011–2014).
Mineur was born on 14 May 1967 inOss, where she would also receive her primary and secondary education. She graduated high school in 1986 and then started studying speech and language-technologies atUtrecht University. In 1989–1990 she went on exchange to theUniversity of Essex and she graduated from Utrecht University in 1992.[1] From 1993 to 1997 she went toSaarland University to study computational linguistics. Mineur was a researcher at theGerman 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 theUniversity of Groningen to become a researcher and lecturer.[1]
Mineur joined theSocialist Party in 2003 and in 2006 she became member of the municipal council ofDe Bilt, where she would serve until 2012. By March 2011 she concurrently became member of theStates of Utrecht, which she would stay until she became member of theEuropean Parliament on 1 July 2014. In the States of Utrecht she was party leader.[1]
Mineur occupied the third place on the Socialist Party list for theEuropean 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 overEric 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 theCommittee 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]
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Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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Party seats | Individual | |||||||
2014 | European Parliament | Socialist Party | 3 | 52,187 | 2 | Won[a] | ||
2015 | Provincial Council of Utrecht | Socialist Party | 33 | 500 | 4 | Lost | ||
2019 | Provincial Council of Utrecht | Socialist Party | 28 | 2 | Lost | |||
2021 | House of Representatives | Socialist Party | 46 | 127 | 9 | Lost | ||
2002 | De BiltMunicipal Council | Socialist Party | 29 | Lost | ||||
2024 | European Parliament | Socialist Party | 7 | 1,370 | 0 | Lost | [5] |