Hussein Bourgi
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Hussein Bourgi (born October 5, 1973, in Dakar) is a French Politician and Senator for the Hérault department.[1]
Hussein Bourgi | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Hérault | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office October 1, 2020 | |
| Parliamentary group | Socialist group in the Senate |
| Regional Councillor of Occitania | |
| Assumed office January 4, 2016 | |
| Constituency | Hérault |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 5, 1973 |
| Party | PS |
Biography
Bourgi was born in Dakar, Senegal, he is of Lebanese origin.[2]
In 1992, Bourgi moved to Montpellier to study law. He later became president of the local National Union of Students of France – Independent and Democratic in 1993 and became a member of the Young Socialists[2]
Bourgi became a member of the Montpellier Women's Rights Vigilance Committee and Montpellier Lesbian and Gay Pride in 1995 and 1997 respectively.[2]
In 1997, he co-founded the Collectif contre l'homophobie (Collective Against Homophobia) which he became president of two years later.[2]
Since 2005, Bourgi has been vice-president of the Réseau d'aide aux victimes d'agression et de discrimination (Assault and Discrimination Support Network) who assist victims of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people.[3]
He was elected federal secretary of the Socialist Party in Hérault in 2012.[2] And became a Regional Councillor of Occitania in the 2015 election.[4]
In the 2020 French Senate election in Hérault, Bourgi was placed on the top of the list of the Socialist Party and was elected with 22% of the vote.[5]
In November 2023, Bourgi presented a bill in the Senate that would allow for the rehabilitation and compensation of people convicted of homosexuality in France between 1942 and 1982.[6][7][8]
Bourgi became the founding vice-president of the refounded L’Association des amis du Félibrige et de la langue d’oc au Sénat (Association of Friends of the Félibrige and the Langue d'Oc in the Senate).[9]