Sajjad Karim

Sajjad Haider Karim ( born July 11, 1970 in Blackburn) is a British politician and since 2004 a MEP for North West England. He was elected for the Liberal Democrats, 26 November 2007, he joined the Conservative Party. On 12 December the same year he was therefore also a member of the Group of the European People's Party - European Democrats.

Karim studied law at the College of Law ( CoL) in Chester. After his bar exam in 1994 he was Solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales. In the same year he was elected a member of the municipal council of Pendle, where he remained until 2001. In the European elections in 2004, he was elected as one of two members of the Liberal Democrats for North West England.

In November 2007, Karim joined the Conservatives. The reason he gave to personal admiration for their party leader David Cameron; a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said that Karim had left the party out of frustration that he had only received second place in the election for the list places for North West England. In the European elections in 2009, he was re-elected. He is, like all members of the Conservative Party, newly established in 2009 for the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists.

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