Lukas Sieper
Lukas Sieper | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Bergisch Gladbach, Germany | 22 March 1997
Political party | Party of Progress |
Lukas Sieper (born 22 March 1997) is a German politician who is leader of the Party of Progress.[1] In the 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament.[2]
Biography
[edit]Sieper was educated at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Wiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia. between school and university, he undertook voluntary military service in the German Federal Armed Forces. He studied law at the University of Cologne, during which he undertook an Erasmus semester at Amsterdam University where he studied international and European law. He passed with honours the first law examination in September 2023. Since 2023, he has been a doctoral student in the Department of Public Law, International Law and European Law at the University of Cologne.[3]
In the June 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected as an Member of the European Parliament.[3] He was first on the list for his political party, Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress; PdF), which received 228,148 (0.6%) votes in that election, winning one seat.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Europawahl: Wiehler ist Spitzenkandidat der von ihm gegründeten „Partei des Fortschritts"". Rundschau Online (in German). 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ Bildung, Bundeszentrale für politische (2024-05-07). "Partei des Fortschritts". bpb.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ a b "Lukas SIEPER: Curriculum vitae". www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ "Europawahl 2024". www.bundeswahlleiterin.de. Die Bundeswahlleiterin. 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.