Petra Pau is a German politician of The Left. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 1998. Since 2006,she has also served as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag,being the first member of her party to hold this office. Pau belongs to the reform-oriented wing of her party,actively supporting parliamentary representative democracy.
Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021,a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger,and the Senator for Integration,Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023.
Anne Helm is a German politician and voice actress. She is serving as parliamentary leader of The Left in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since June 2020,and has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2016. She was previously a member of the Pirate Party Germany from 2009 to 2014.
Klaus Lederer is a German politician of The Left who served as Deputy Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe in the Berlin state government between December 2016 to April 2023. He is also a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2001. He previously served as chairman of the Berlin branch of The Left from 2006 to 2016. He was the lead candidate for his party in the 2016,2021 and 2023 state elections.
Katrin Lompscher is a German politician who served as Senator for Urban Development and Housing in Berlin in the Senate of Governing Mayor Michael Müller from 2016 to 2020. A member of The Left,she previously served as Senator for Health,Environment and Consumer Protection from 2006 to 2011 in the third Senate of Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit,and as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2011 until her resignation in 2017.
Heidi Knake-Werner is a German politician. She served as a member of the German parliament ("Bundestag") between 1994 and 2002. Between 2002 and 2009 she was one of Berlin's more high-profile senators.
Caren Nicole Lay is a German politician. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018,she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019,Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.
Martina Renner is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and one of six deputy leaders of her party since 2018.
Helin Evrim Sommer is a German politician,a former member of the Berlin House of Representatives and of the German Bundestag for the state of Berlin. She was a member of The Left party until May 2022.
The 2021 Berlin state election,ruled invalid in 2022 and repeated in 2023,was held on 26 September 2021,on the same day as the 2021 German federal election,which also had to be repeated in parts of Berlin due to irregularities. Thus,the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin was elected twice.
Cornelia Seibeld is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since March 2023,she has served as the president of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin,having previously served as vice-president from 2016-2023. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2006.
Bettina Jarasch is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as Deputy Mayor and Senator for Environment,Mobility,Consumer and Climate Protection in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2016 to 2021 and again since 2023,as well as leader of the Berlin branch of the Greens from 2011 to 2016. She was the Greens' lead candidate for the 2021 Berlin state election and again for the 2023 Berlin repeat state election.
Halina Wawzyniak is a German politician of The Left who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2017. She was federal co-deputy leader of The Left from 2008 to 2012.
Ricarda Lang is a German politician who has been serving as co-leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 2022,alongside Omid Nouripour. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Previously,she was co-deputy leader of the party and spokeswoman for women's policy from 2019 to 2021,and co-leader of the Green Youth from 2017 to 2019.
Elke Breitenbach is a German politician of The Left who served as Senator for Integration,Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from 2016 to 2021. She previously sat as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2003 to 2017.
Antje Kapek is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2012 to 2022,she was co-chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She was co-lead candidate in the 2016 Berlin state election alongside Ramona Pop,Bettina Jarasch,and Daniel Wesener.
Silke Gebel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2016,she has been co-chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2011.
Iris Spranger is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as Senator for Interior,Digitalisation and Sport in the Berlin state government since December 2021. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2011,and previously served from 1999 to 2006. From 2006 to 2011 she was State Secretary in the state Finance Department.
Katalin Gennburg is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2016.
Julia Schneider is a German administrative scientist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.
