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Anna Manwah Lo MBE (born 17 June 1950) is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland.〔("Belfast politician defies racists" ). ''BBC News''. 26 March 2007.〕 Born in Hong Kong, of Cantonese-Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South in the 2007 assembly election.〔 She was the first ethnic-minority politician elected at a regional level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any legislative body in the United Kingdom.〔McBride, S. ("South Belfast: Lo and behold – UK first for Alliance's Anna" ). ''Belfast Telegraph'', 8 March 2007.〕〔Although she had been referred to in some media as "''the first Chinese person to be elected as a lawmaker anywhere in Europe''", there have been a number of lawmakers who were elected into European parliaments before her: Of Chinese ancestry: * Ing Yoe Tan, member of the Dutch Senate from 1999 to 2011 * Varina Tjon-A-Ten, member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 2003 to 2006 * Mei Li Vos, member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 2007 to 2010 and 2012 to present Chinese: * Andre Thien Ah Koon, first and only Chinese elected to the French National Assembly and the first Chinese elected to a parliament in Europe, 1986-2006 * Khee Liang Phoa, Dutch State Secretary for Emancipation and Family Affairs in 2002–2003〕 ==Political career== In 2011, Anna Lo was appointed as the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Environment Committee. She used this role to influence the Local Government Bill. As a result of her amendments, the new Councils will have greater levels of openness and transparency as the audio of the main Council meetings will be recorded and Council papers will be placed online. She has also further improved the freedom of the press at the new Councils by ensuring that journalists and the public will be able to use social media during meetings. She was selected as the Alliance Party's candidate for the Northern Ireland constituency in the European Parliament election, 2014. She won the best ever European election performance for the party. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Lo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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