Farida Amrani

Farida Amrani (born 3 September 1976) is a Moroccan-born French trade unionist and politician from La France Insoumise. She has been a Member of Parliament since 2022.

Farida Amrani
Farida Amrani in 2019
Member of the National Assembly for Essonne's 1st constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 June 2022
Preceded by	Francis Chouat
Personal details
Born	(1976-09-03) 3 September 1976 (age 48) Ajdir, Morocco
Political party	La France Insoumise

Early life

Born in Morocco in 1976, Amrani arrived in France at the age of 2.^[1]

Career

After a Vocational Baccalauréat and a Transport and Logistics Services BTS, she became a territorial civil servant in 2003 at the Cœur d'Essonne.^[1]

She worked for the General Confederation of Labour.

In the 2014 French municipal elections, she ran for the Left Front list, obtaining 18.78% of the vote in the second round.^[2]

She challenged the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls in his seat at the 2017 legislative election, narrowly losing in the second round by 139 votes. She then mocked the candidacy of Manuel Valls in the 2019 Barcelona City Council election,^[3] and demanded his resignation from his mandate as a Member of Parliament.^[4] When Valls resigned from Parliament, she stood in the by-election but came in second place.^[5] She is the NUPES candidate in the Essonne's 1st constituency for the 2022 French legislative election.^[6] She came top in the first round.^[7] She was elected in the second round.^[8]

References

1. "10 choses à savoir sur Farida Amrani, l'Insoumise qui veut remplacer Manuel Valls". L'Obs (in French). 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
2. "Qui est Farida Amrani, la candidate insoumise qui conteste la victoire de Manuel Valls à Evry ?". TF1 INFO (in French). 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
3. Dejean, Mathieu. "Qui est Farida Amrani, la candidate insoumise qui peut faire tomber Manuel Valls ? - Les Inrocks". lesinrocks.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-14.
4. "L'ex adversaire de Valls à Evry se moque de sa possible candidature à Barcelone". Le HuffPost (in French). 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
5. à 21h38, Par Sébastien Morelli Le 26 octobre 2018 (2018-10-26). "Essonne : onze candidats briguent la succession de Manuel Valls". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. "Législatives en Essonne. Farida Amrani en tête du premier tour à Evry-Courcouronnes". actu.fr (in French). 12 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
7. à 14h41, Par Florian Loisy Le 13 juin 2022 (2022-06-13). "Législatives en Essonne : avec le carton de la Nupes à Évry et Corbeil, l'Insoumise Farida Amrani proche du but". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
8. "Résultats des législatives en Essonne : Farida Amrani élue dans la circonscription d'Evry - Corbeil". actu.fr (in French). 19 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-21.