Sanae Abdi | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Karsten Möring |
| Constituency | Cologne I |
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| Born | (1986-07-07)7 July 1986 (age 38) Tétouan, Morocco |
| 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 theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as aMember of the Bundestag for theconstituency ofCologne I since the2021 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 inLüdenscheid, in theSauerland region ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia and studied law atUniversity of Marburg, theUniversity of Bonn and theUniversity of Cologne.[3]
From 2018 to 2021, Abdi worked atGIZ[4] inBonn, 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 theChristian Democrats since the2013 German federal election. She defeated the incumbentKarsten 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 theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[7]
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