Career in state politics
Bayram started her political career by joining the Social Democratic Party in 1999. In 2006 she was elected to the House of Representatives of Berlin in the district of Berlin-Friedrichshain,winning 28% of the vote in the district. She was a spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary caucus and a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs,Home Affairs,Security and Order,as well as the Committee on Economic Affairs,Technology and Women. [2] In May 2009,she defected from the SPD and joined the Alliance 90/The Greens in the House of Representatives of Berlin. [1]
Bayram was re-elected in the 2011 and 2016 Berlin elections in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 5. She was the spokesperson for migration,integration and refugee policy as well as spokesperson for legal policy in the party. [3] She was also a member of the Committee for Integration,Labor,Vocational Training and Social Affairs as well as the Committee on Home Affairs,Security and Order and the Committee on Legal Affairs,Constitutional Affairs,Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination. Her political priorities were labor market policy,family policy,and domestic and legal policy. [3]
Member of Parliament,2017–2025
On 28 February 2017,Bayram announced her candidacy to succeed federal Alliance 90/The Greens member of Bundestag Hans-Christian Ströbele. [4] At a constituency meeting on 11 March 2017,she was nominated as the Green candidate for the Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg –Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district for the 2017 German federal election. [5] During the federal Alliance 90/The Greens convention in Berlin from 16 to 18 June 2017,Bayram was introduced to a wider national audience. In an introductory speech,Bayram sharply criticized the party's lead candidates Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir. [6]
In the September federal election,Bayram was directly elected to the Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg –Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district with 26.3% of the vote. [7] As with her predecessor in the district,Ströbele,Bayram was the only Alliance 90/The Greens member of Bundestag to be directly elected and not from the party list. [8] [9]
In parliament,Bayram was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. In addition,she served on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice,namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH),the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG),the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH),the Federal Labour Court (BAG),and the Federal Social Court (BSG).
In addition to her committee assignments,Bayram served as deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States. From 2022,she was also part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. [10]
In October 2024,Bayram announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from national politics by the end of the parliamentary term. [11] Bayram decided against running for office in the 2025 federal election out of dissatisfaction with her party's course. She decided against running,"among other things because it is becoming less and less clear to me what the Alliance 90/The Greens party actually stands for. ...In this respect,I can no longer explain to people what we stand for or whether they can trust us" she wrote. [12]
In March 2025,Bayram was the only Green in the Bundestag to vote against Friedrich Merz's constitutional amendment to increase military spending. [13]
