Sari ESSAYAH - EPP Group in the European Parliament.
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The Christian Democratic Party said Friday that support for new chair Sari Essayah had been unanimous. Another MP, Sari Tanus, withdrew from the contest before ballots were cast by 666 voting delegates at the party’s convention in Savonlinna. Essayah, who is also a former world champion race walker, has been active in the party since 1996. She was first elected to the Parliament in 2003 and.
Essayah was elected to the European parliament in 2009. Before that she was a member of the Finnish parliament from 2003 to 2007, and from 2004 she also led the Christian Democrat group in parliament. She was not re-elected in 2009, but was instead made party secretary.
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Note to editors. The EPP is the largest and most influential European-level political party of the centre-right, which currently includes 83 parties and partners from 43 countries, the President of the European Commission, 11 EU and 3 non-EU heads of state and government, 10 members of the European Commission and the largest Group in the European Parliament.
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