Leïla Chaibi


Leïla Chaibi is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

Early life and education

Leïla Chaibi graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Toulouse. She then gets closer to militant networks fond of symbolic modes of action with strong media resonance, such as Génération précaire or Jeudi noir. She is one of the founders of the collective l'Appel et la Pioche, known especially for picnics "reappropriating" in supermarkets.

Political career

Long apart from classical political organizations, it was in 2009, when she was founded, that she joined the New Anticapitalist Party alongside Olivier Besancenot. She left this party in February 2011 to join the Left Party and became the Left Party's national secretary for the abolition of the precariat.
Member of the Left Party's National Campaign Council for the 2012 Presidential Election, she coaches Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the occupation of the rating agency Moody's.
In 2012, she is a candidate in the legislative elections in the 10th constituency of Paris. For the 2014 municipal elections, she is candidate of the Left Party for the mayor of the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
In 2016, she takes part in Nuit debout. In 2017, she is a candidate in the legislative elections in the 10th constituency of Paris for La France insoumise. She is on the ballot in the first round with 14.62% of the vote, in 2nd position and she is beaten in the 2nd round with 39.89% of the votes.
During the 2019 European Parliament election, she is in third place on the La France Insoumise's list of candidates.