Nora Zaïdi
| Nora Zaïdi | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1989–1994 |
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June 7, 1965 Bethoncourt (French département of Doubs) |
| Political party | Independent |
Nora Zaïdi (Nora Mebrak-Zaïdi), born on July 6, 1965 in Bethoncourt (French département of Doubs), daughter of an Algerian textile toiler, is a French activist who seated in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994.
Delegate from Montbéliard for the second national congress of SOS Racisme in 1988 at Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), she declared in an interview broadcast in the main evening news programme of the Second public TV channel about the right of foreigners to vote : "My father arrived 30 years ago in France, today he is retired. He worked, he paid his taxes, things were always decided for him, it is an aberration.".
At the European Parliament election in 1989, she is not yet 24, she has just got a first degree and master in modern language studies and she is put at the 20th place on the French Socialist Party list even if she is not a party member : "I never was a member of the Socialist Party, and still I am not. But he (Laurent Fabius) met several delegates from SOS Racisme, and finally chose me.". She is elected, first French MEP with roots in Algeria, alongside Djida Tazdaït, a Lyon activist chosen by The Greens. Eighteen years later, she declares: "I was the youngest. It was exciting for five years.", "I was still a bit lost, far from my background and too young".
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