14 Facts About Judith Sargentini

Judith Sargentini was born on 13 March 1974 and is a former Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament.

Since 1990, Sargentini was politically active, first in the PSJG, the political youth organization of the left-socialist Pacifist Socialist Party, and later in DWARS, the political youth organization of the GreenLeft, a new political party in which the PSP had merged.

Judith Sargentini was secretary of the Dutch Student Union and board member of the European Students' Union.

In 2002, Judith Sargentini was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council.

Between 2006 and 2009, Judith Sargentini served as chair of the GreenLeft party in the Amsterdam municipality.

In 2009, Judith Sargentini was one of the candidates for the position of lead candidate on the list of GroenLinks for the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Judith Sargentini became a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs of the European Parliament, as well as a substitute for the Committee on Development.

Judith Sargentini is a vice-chairwoman of the cross-party working groups on fair trade, as well as on innovation, access to medicines, and poverty-related diseases.

From 2014 until 2019, Judith Sargentini was a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group, which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.

Judith Sargentini has led EU-Election Observer Missions on numerous occasions, including for the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary elections and the 2015 Tanzanian general elections.

Ms Judith Sargentini replied at a press conference, stating that she went through it and found "no holes in [her] report since it is based on sources of intergovernmental bodies such as the UN, the Council of Europe, court cases from Strasbourg and Luxembourg, infringement procedures", adding that the report does not express her personal opinion but that of the European Commission.

The dean of the Hungarian university ELTE claimed that contrarily to what Ms Judith Sargentini said, the university had not been consulted during Ms Judith Sargentini's investigation, and asked the removal of its name from the report many times- without response.

On this issue, Ms Judith Sargentini answered that names were omitted on the interviewed academics' request, who feared of being outed as they would be labelled anti-government and pursued for their opinions.

Chief Rabbi, Slomo Koves declared that the Judith Sargentini Report is misleading and unfounded concerning Hungarian antisemitism.