Melis Sekmen | |
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 Sekmen in 2023 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
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| Born | 26 September 1993 Mannheim, Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens (until 2 July 2024) CDU (since 9 July 2024) |
Melis Sekmen (born 26 September 1993) is a German politician. She is a member of the German Bundestag from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She previously was a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She is of Turkish descent. [1]
In the Bundestag, Sekmen serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022. [2]
Elected as a Green in 2021, she resigned from her former party and its Bundestag fraction on 1 July 2024, intending to apply for membership in the CDU and the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group. She said, "My idea of how and in what style politics is done has evolved." [3] Sekmen's differences of opinion with the Green Party's majority line had recently become apparent primarily in the areas of migration and the economy; for example, she had called for a "change of course" in migration and integration policy. She also cited her recognition of the Union's new basic program as a reason for the switch. [4] [5] On 9 July, she was admitted to the CDU. [6] She is thus the first Green member of the Bundestag to switch to the Union parties since Vera Lengsfeld in 1996, [7] and the third CDU member of Turkish origin after Cemile Giousouf and Serap Güler.
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