Labor picks candidate to fill Pnevmatikos vacancy

The north-eastern suburbs resident was endorsed by the ALP State Government this morning following the the resignation of Irene Pnevmatikos who not too long ago revealed she was identified with most cancers.

Mira El Dannawi, 39, was born in Lebanon and moved to Australia in 2007. She has lived in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs since migrating and has accomplished a Certificates III and a Diploma in early childhood training.

She can also be the assistant director of Modbury Group Kids’s Centre and, in a press release, pledged to “stand for what’s honest and have staff greatest pursuits at coronary heart in all the pieces I do”.

“I strongly consider in social and financial justice and a good go for all, I’ll endeavour to signify the voice of the susceptible, the employees, the kids, the aged, the migrant and the numerous different teams inside our communities,” El Dannawi stated.

“It’s not simply educating our younger and giving them the foundations for a fantastic future, it’s additionally about serving to households – from various backgrounds – see their youngsters dream and obtain.”

Pnevmatikos, who was first elected to the Higher Home in 2018 after a profession in regulation, resigned in September citing ongoing well being points.

Throughout her profession in politics, she chaired parliament’s Legislative Assessment Committee and different inquiries into wage theft and the gig financial system, in addition to a authorities taskforce into the gender pay hole.

By-elections aren’t held to switch informal vacancies within the Higher Home, with the celebration from which the MP resigned as a substitute attending to nominate the popular alternative.

Pnevmatikos revealed in her valedictory speech three days after asserting her retirement {that a} current physique scan detected 5 cancerous spots on her lungs.

Beforehand, she was identified with kidney most cancers in 2022 and subsequently had a kidney eliminated.

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