Aboubakar Soumahoro

Aboubakar Soumahoro (born 6 June 1980) is an Ivorian-born Italian politician, trade unionist and activist who is serving as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Emilia-Romagna constituency since 2022.

He is known for his advocacy regarding labor rights of migrant farmers in Italy.

Early life and education Aboubakar Soumahoro was born in 1980 in Bétroulilié, Ivory Coast. He came to Italy in 1999, at the age of 19. He graduated from the University of Naples Federico II in 2010 with a degree in Sociology, earning a score of 110/110 with his thesis, titled “Social Analysis of the Labor Market: The Condition of Migrant Workers in the Italian Labor Market—Persistence and Changes”. 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%). 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 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, 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.

On 9 January 2023 Soumahoro left the Green-Left Alliance, citing lack of solidarity and unwillingness to politically help him during the investigation. Electoral history +2022 Italian general electionConstituency PartyElectoral listVotesResultRef Emilia-Romagna Independent AVS Elected via Proportional list