Two Kurdish women won two seats in the European Parliament following their victory in the continental elections that ended last Sunday, one of which has Swedish citizenship and the other has the German citizenship.
Sweden’s Social Democrat candidate, Evin Incir and member of the German left-wing party, Uzlm Alef Demirel, won enough votes in the European Parliament elections to qualify for parliament.
Evin Incir, 34-year-old, born in Amed, was elected as a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (SAP) to the European Parliament(EP).
SAP got 23.6% of the vote in Sweden on Sunday when 20 EU parliamentarians were elected and sent 5 members, including Incir, to the European Parliament.
For many years, Incir has been doing politics in the Social Democratic Labor Party. She served as the president of the International Socialist Youth Association (IUSY) for a while and later worked for the Olof Palme Center. For the past two years, she has been serving as Deputy Secretary of International Affairs of the Social Democratic Labor Party.
In an interview with the ANF prior to the elections, she said, “I am a candidate to the European Parliament and if elected I want to defend equality, democracy, and human rights, fight racism and to raise the Kurdish question”.
On 31 March, she went to Amed as an international observer of the local elections together with SAP Deputy Kadir Kasırga.
