Tanja Machalet | |
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 Tanja Machalet (2014) | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office October 2021 – 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Andreas Nick |
| Succeeded by | Harald Orthey |
| Constituency | Montabaur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1974-05-01)1 May 1974 (age 51) |
| Political party | SPD |
Tanja Machalet (néeBreuer, born 1 May 1974)[1] is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD). Machalet became a member of theBundestag in the2021 German federal election and she represented the constituency ofMontabaur.[2]
Machalet was deputy federal chairman of the Jusos from 1999 to 2003, of which she had been a member since 1991.[3] In 2009, she was theSPD's candidate for district administrator in the Westerwald district, but lost to Achim Schwickert of the CDU. In 2011 and 2016, Machalet ran for the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in the electoral district of Montabaur and entered the state parliament for the SPD on the state list in both cases. In the legislative period from 2016, she was a member of the Budget and Finance Committee, the Committee for Social Affairs and Labor, and the Committee for Health, Care and Demography. She was also the budget policy spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary group.[4]
Machalet is a member of the municipal council of the Wallmerod municipality[5] and the district council of the Westerwald district.
In March 2020, Machalet announced that she would not run again in the election for the 18th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. The district executive of the SPD in the Westerwaldkreis nominated Machalet to succeed Gabi Weber in the Bundestag constituency of Montabaur for the election to the 20th GermanBundestag. On March 20, 2021, she was elected by the relevant delegate conference as the SPD direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Montabaur.[6]
In the2021 elections, Machalet was elected to the German Bundestag as a direct candidate in the Montabaur constituency.[7] Since the2025 elections, she has been chairing the parliament's Committee on Health.[8]
Within her parliamentary group, Machalet belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[9]
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