Aboubakar Soumahoro

Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétroulilié in the Ivory Coast.[4] The arrival in Italy takes place in 1999, at the age of 19.[5] He graduated in 2010 in sociology at the University of Naples Federico II with a score of 110/110 with a thesis on "Social analysis of the labor market. The condition of migrant workers in the Italian labor market: persistence and changes".[5]

In the general elections of 2022, Green Europe offers Soumahoro the candidacy as an independent in the Chamber of Deputies in the context of the Greens and Left Alliance list.[6] Soumahoro is a candidate in the single-member constituency of Modena for the centre-left, obtaining 36.01% and being unexpectedly defeated by the centre-right candidate Daniela Dondi (37.44%).[7] Thanks to further candidacies as leaders of Greens and Lef Alliance in the multi-nominal constituencies Veneto 1 - 01, Apulia 02, Lombardy 1 - 01, Emilia Romagna 02, he was elected in the last three and was assigned, according to the electoral law, to the latter.

Following administrative irregularities that have occurred[8] in the cooperatives managed by his mother-in-law and his partner and the launch of judicial investigations by the Latina Public Prosecutor's Office,[9] on 24 November 2022 Soumahoro decided to suspend himself from the parliamentary group of the Greens and Left Alliance, in order to clarify his position, reaffirming his extraneousness to the whole affair.[10]

On January 9, 2023, Soumahoro left the Green-Left Alliance, citing lack of solidarity and unwillingness to politically help him during the investigation.[11]