Sanae Abdi | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
Preceded by | Karsten Möring |
Constituency | Cologne I |
Personal details | |
Born | Tétouan,Morocco | 7 July 1986
Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Website | sanae-abdi |
Sanae Abdi (born 7 July 1986) is a German-Moroccan lawyer [1] and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cologne I since the 2021 federal election. She is the first person born in Morocco to serve in the Bundestag. [2]
Abdi was born in Morocco and emigrated to Germany at the age of three. [3] She grew up in Lüdenscheid,in the Sauerland region of North Rhine-Westphalia and studied law at University of Marburg,the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne. [3]
From 2018 to 2021,Abdi worked at GIZ [4] in Bonn,where she coordinated projects on sustainable supply chains in the textile industry. [3]
She ran for the Bundestag in 2021 in a district that historically supported the Social Democrats,but had been held by the Christian Democrats since the 2013 German federal election. She defeated the incumbent Karsten Möring for the direct mandate. [3]
In parliament,Abdi has since been serving on the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy,the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development [4] and the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy. [5] She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson for development policy. [6]
In addition to her committee assignments,Abdi is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States.
Within her parliamentary group,Abdi belongs to the Parliamentary Left,a left-wing movement. [7]
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