Florent Marcellesi

Florent Marcellesi (born 1979) is a French politician and activist based in Spain. Federal Co-Spokesperson of Equo from 2020 to 2024, he previously served as Member of the European Parliament from 2016 to 2019.

Biography Born on 10 April 1979 in Angers, France, he is son to a Corsican father and a Polish mother.

Involved with the French Greens since 2002, Marcellesi, based in Bilbao since 2004, later joined , He also promoted the "Platform for Decent Housing" as well as became a member of Desazkundea, a group advocating for degrowth positions. Thus, he ran second in the Primavera Europea coalition list after Jordi Sebastià (from Compromís). He became a member of the European Parliament on 11 October 2016, following the early renouncement of Sebastià (already agreed as part of the 2014 coalition deal between Compromís and Equo).

Integrated within the Greens–European Free Alliance political group (Greens/EFA), Marcellesi served as member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.