Welcome to the LYMEC 2020 Elections page. Here you can find information about the candidates for the various positions that will be elected during our Online Spring Congress. The elections will take place on Saturday, 4 April. The information on this page has been submitted by the candidates by the deadline that was set for Friday, 6 March.
Written questions were addressed to some of the candidates, please find their answers here!
For two years we worked hard on LYMEC’s policy. I would like to continue from the strong platform we built together to
Because together, we can do more!
Dan-Aria works as a consultant in public affairs and PR in Sweden. He is also the Communications Officer of LYMEC. As the Vice President, Dan wants to work for a LYMEC that focuses on promoting Its policies in the European political debate.
I would like to bring my executive experience from building a successful grassroots movement in Hungary into LYMEC. We need proactive operational reform to live up to LYMEC’s full potential. There is are immense opportunities in conducting Campaigns together and using our political capital in the EU institutions. Let’s make LYMEC an UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION together.
I am running for Treasurer of LYMEC because I believe LYMEC is an organisation with great potential. To unlock all this and to assure that the rest of the Bureau can reach their full potential, orderly finances will be crucial. I hope to use my experience as Treasurer, enthusiasm and work ethic to make LYMEC ready for the future.
I am running for bureau member because I am a strong believer in the power that people have when they stand together to defend their ideals. Only by unleashing the full potential of you, its Member Organisations, and caring for one another, will LYMEC be the strongest advocate for freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Let’s not be scared to re-think old processes and to try something new in order to enable progress and growth. I would like to bring in my years of experience and new ideas to open up LYMEC, build capacities for engagement and make international politics accessible to even more members.
My name is Paolo, I’m 27, and I am a youth worker from Croatia. I’m running for the position of Bureau Member with one goal, to help grow and develop an open, liberal, free and equal Europe. I would like to focus on youth, how to tackle some issues and help individuals and organisations become more effective in activating youngsters.
Hello everyone, I’m Ruslan. I was born in Moscow in 1992, and I’m a dual citizen (RUS-ITA). I joined Lymec to make a change, because Liberalism to me is the only instrument that could solve many of today’s problems. My commitment is for personal and economic freedom, and for a United Europe! Together we’ll make the difference!
After 5 years of active membership at LYMEC, I want to take a step forward and place my gathered experience at LYMEC’s disposal. If elected as LYMEC Bureau Member, I will be working on improving our policy structure and plan, our transparency, our Individual Members‘ Section and our internal and external network. I count on you!
I want to work for a more inclusive LYMEC that truly represents all young, European liberals. I also want LYMEC to be more political and drive more thematic campaigns to highlight the policies from our Policy Book. Furthermore, LYMEC is nothing without its MOs, and therefore I want to focus even more on strengthening LYMEC’s Member Organisations.
I have been a longstanding member of the Estonian Reform Party Youth (ERPY) and have had the honour during this time to both serve as a Board Member and an International Officer. I am currently working as an anti money laundering investigator for a fintech startup, where my everyday work revolves around reviewing high risk behaviour and excluding the potential risk of financial crime occurring.
I am most attracted towards LYMEC for the liberal platform it provides to many young Europeans, for whom their relevant political agenda is not limited to their current country of residence or even nationality. LYMEC has the power of changing these persons’ lives by presenting them a broader spectrum of liberal ideas and experiences, which can in the end, up to the person’s choice, be used in both the public and the private sector, benefiting Europe overall.
Sanda Krekikj, Msc is the International officer of the Liberal Democratic youth – LiDeM in North Macedonia. She holds bachelor’s degree in economy and master’s degree in department of finance and banking. Sanda has 9 years of working experience in several positions, all connected in the field of finance. Currently she is Executive director of non – governmental organization ‘’ Liberal Institute – Skopje’’.
At the same time, she is dedicated to humanitarian causes and raising the awareness of the women in politics. Through the Liberal Institute she organised an Academy for Young Women Leaders.
Greetings dear delegates,
Some of you may know me as one of the former Administrative Assistants in LYMEC, as a liberal from Belgium, or as one of the current IMS delegates.
Since I have been engaged so closely with our organization, it’s easier to orient myself in the auditing process if it would be necessary.
That’s why I’m applying for substitute internal auditor!
If you’d like to know more about me, follow the links below towards my cv and motivation letter.
Don’t be afraid to reach out through social media or my website!
Cheers
Anna Komziuk currently holds the position of LDLU European officer and previously served as the acting Human Resources officer. For the last 4 years, Anna has shown great potential at both international and European liberal levels. She has gained vast experience and inspiration being engaged in various LYMEC and IFLRY activities. Taking into account her strong communication skills, understanding of human resources essence and deep commitment to liberal values, we are pleased to nominate Anna to contribute to our European liberal family of LYMEC through the work at the global level of IFLRY. During the time spent within our organisation, she has developed a professional approach to mediation and arbitration matters, as well as demonstrated capacity in the area of international negotiations and management.
Inspired by the results reached by LYMEC at ALDE congress in Athens, I want to capitalise on the diplomatic and political insights I have gained and put myself forward as a member of the next delegation. We need to make our voices heard, because without a strong LYMEC delegation that does so, decisions will be made for us, not by us.
Being part of the LYMEC Delegation is so much more than attending an ALDE Congress under the LYMEC flag. It’s heavy preparations with the whole delegation months before the congress, it’s teamwork, it’s putting forward LYMECs content and fighting for it and it’s networking with other ALDE organisations to put LYMECs interests on the map. But most of all, it’s representing the liberal youth of Europe with all we have.
The motivation is definitely there, I just need your vote so that I can be able to represent you in the best way possible!
Gender equality, Recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic and Environmental and Health Protection are my main motivations to join the teamwork of the LYMEC Delegation to the ALDE Party Congress 2020. As a delegate I want to help our next policy officer deliver for our policy in our congress! The preparation will be hard but I will have the time and motivation to do this with a fresh attitude. Let’s do this together!
After many years in LYMEC I decided to put myself forward as a candidate to the LYMEC delegation to ALDE Party Congress in Sweden.
In my five years in LYMEC I learned to speak my mind internationally, to be diplomatic and fight for the liberal ideas. In the delegation I will be an active, dynamic and dedicated liberal voice, who loves a good debate and the process of making politics. If possible I will use my voice as young liberal candidate for the Danish parliament, for Venstre – The Liberal Party of Denmark, to get our politics through the Congress.
I really hope that you will let me be part of the hard and exciting work, by voting on me at the online congress.
Thank you!
Dear friends,
LYMEC’s foremost goal is to advocate young liberal positions vice versa our mother party, ALDE. By running as your delegate to the ALDE Congress, this is my top priority: As former Vice President of JuLis I have lots of experience in lobbying young liberal policies on highest party levels. I want to draw on those experiences in order to upload as much of our great policy book as possible to ALDE.
Provided you put your trust in me, I pledge to represent a strong young liberal voice and to enhance transparency for all of you. You can find more about me and my plans in my motivation letter and CV.
It would be a great honour if you gave me the chance to do so.
My name is Laia Garrido, I am from Barcelona and the International Officer of Jóvenes Ciudadanos. After attending three Alde Congresses as a Ciudadanos delegate, I am keen to be part of the courageous Lymec Delegation. In times in which the EU is constantly challenged and questioned, I want to be part of the group of young liberal leaders that attend the Alde Congress to say out loud what many think but do not dare to say, to defend with conviction our policy book and, above all, to represent the interests of young liberals in Europe.
Bellow you can find more information about my motivation, past experience and commitments as Alde Delegate, which I am happy to talk through any time.
I hope to count with your trust and support, as myself and JCs are motivated to keep actively contributing to the well-needed work of Lymec. Together we can make Europe stronger and truly liberal!
Growing up in Luxembourg, European multiculturalism has never been a strange figure to me. After completing my M.A. in Innovation Management in Germany and a M.Sc. in Investment Banking and Capital Markets in France, I started working in Banking in Luxembourg and joined the Demokratesch Partei (DP). Very soon after I got elected to the board of the liberal youth party, Jonk Demokraten, where I continue to work on financial and climate related topics. I am involved in the local as well as the national politics as President of my local Party as well as being part of national committees.
As part of the Luxembourgish Delegation I joined LYMEC’s Congress in London as well as Jóvenes Ciudadanos’ Congress in Santander. More recently I helped organizing LYMEC’s Event in Luxembourg entitled ‘Values First? Promoting EU norms through trade’. Together with the Bureau, I was able to introduce our Party’s President as well as our youngest MEP to the LYMEC delegation and organised a parliamentary visit, which was spearheaded by our youngest Member in the Luxembourgish Parliament.
My political views include a strong sense for social liberalism as well as a responsibility to be fiscally conservative. In my spare time I love to play the saxophone and have a pint with friends over a good conversation.
Dear liberal friends,
I already had the chance to attend the last ALDE Party Congress in Athens as part of the FDP delegation. The active work of our LYMEC delegation impressed me very much and raised my interest to join the team for the next congress in Stockholm.
As someone who has been studying, working and living in different, both “old” and “new” EU countries and who has been in contact with many of our members and member organisations as delegate and later as IO of LHG, I’m motivated to work within our LYMEC team and to represent our policy book at the congress to make us one of the most prominent voices in Stockholm!
See you on Saturday, I’m looking forward to all of you and I would be very thankful for your votes.
Being part of the LYMEC Delegation to ALDE Party Congress is a privilege but also a huge responsibility. It can be a lot of fun, but a lot of work need to be done first.
Thanks to your support, I already had the opportunity to be part of the most active and the most influential delegation during the ALDE Party Congress in Athens last year. Yes, it was the LYMEC Delegation! I would like to put the experience gained to help continuing the good work and have the chance to represent LYMEC and contribute more for putting the youth policies on the top of the ALDE Party’s agenda.
