Selma Yildirim | |
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Member of National Council | |
Assumed office 15 October 2017 | |
President | Wolfgang Sobotka |
Personal details | |
Born | Istanbul, Turkey | 25 August 1969
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Selma Yildirim (born 25 August 1969) is an Austrian politician who is a member of the National Council and deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).
Yildirim was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to Austria as a child. She studied law at the University of Innsbruck. She is the leader of the SPÖ Tirol's women's organisation since 2014. [1] In November 2019 Yildirim became the party's spokesperson on judicial affairs. [2]
Yildirim was elected to the National Council in the 2017 election, [3] after running as her party's leading candidate in Tyrol. [4] She kept her seat after the 2019 election. [5]
Earlier, in April 2017, Yildirim had been nominated to become a judge on the Bundesfinanzgericht, but she was rejected in 2018 because she became a member of parliament in the meantime. [6]