Amira Mohamed Ali | |
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 Mohamed Ali in 2024 | |
| Leader of theSahra Wagenknecht Alliance | |
| Assumed office 8 January 2024 Serving with Fabio De Masi | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of the Bundestag forLower Saxony | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Parliamentary Co-Chair ofThe Left in theBundestag | |
| In office 12 November 2019 – 25 October 2023 Serving with Dietmar Bartsch | |
| Preceded by | Sahra Wagenknecht |
| Succeeded by | Dietmar Bartsch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amira Mohamed Ali (1980-01-16)16 January 1980 (age 46) |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Party | Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023) |
| Other political affiliations | The Left (until 2023) |
Amira Mohamed Ali (Arabic:أميرة محمد علي; born 16 January 1980) is a German politician who served as amember of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2025 and has been one of the federal co-chairs of theBSW since 2024. From 12 November 2019 till October 2023, she was the parliamentary co-chairperson ofThe Left alongsideDietmar Bartsch.
In October 2023, she left The Left alongside others likeSahra Wagenknecht to found a new party. Mohamed Ali was the chairwoman of the board of theBündnis Sahra Wagenknecht-Association which was founded to prepare a new party in January 2024. She became chairwoman of the association and, upon the party’s founding on 8 January 2024, assumed the co-leadership of the newly establishedBSW alongside Sahra Wagenknecht. On 6 December 2025, Mohamed Ali was reaffirmed as co-chair of the BSW, this time alongsideFabio De Masi.
Amira Mohamed Ali was born inHamburg and grew up inHamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. Her father isEgyptian and her mother isGerman.[1][2] After graduating from theGelehrtenschule des Johanneums inHamburg-Winterhude in 1998, Mohamed Ali studied law at the universities ofHeidelberg andHamburg, where she began and completed her studies.[3] She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg between 2005 and 2007.
She was admitted to the bar in 2008 and worked as an in-house lawyer and contract manager for an automotive supplier until 2017.[3] She is a member ofIG Metall and the German Animal Welfare Association.
Mohamed Ali is married and has lived inOldenburg since 2005.[1][4][5]
Mohamed Ali has been a board member of the Oldenburg/Ammerland district association of the party Die Linke inLower Saxony since 2015.[6] She ran for political office for the first time in the 2016 local elections on list number 2 in electoral district VI of the city of Oldenburg.[7] In this election, the Left Party achieved its best result in a local election since its foundation.[8]
Mohamed Ali ran as a direct candidate for theOldenburg-Ammerland constituency in the2017 federal election. She was elected number 5 on her party's Lower Saxony state list and was elected to the Bundestag through that list.[9][10][11] In the 19th Bundestag, she is a member of the Committee for Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Committee for Food and Agriculture.[3][12] She was spokesperson forconsumer protection and for animal protection of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[13]
On 12 November 2019, she was elected asSahra Wagenknecht's successor–alongside Dietmar Bartsch–as co-chair of the parliamentary group. Mohamed Ali won in a competitive vote againstCaren Lay, 36 votes to 29.[14]
In 2023, the dispute between left-wing populist and conservativeSarah Wagenknecht and the party leadership came to a head. As a result, Wagenknecht put forward the prospect of founding her own party. In August 2023, Mohamed Ali, who currently belongs to the Wagenknecht Group, announced that she would be stepping back from co-chair of the parliamentary group because of the dispute. She said that it was difficult for her to represent the course of the party board in the Bundestag.[15]
Mohamed Ali was involved in the founding ofBündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), a registered association with the goal of founding a new political party in Germany. Mohamed Ali serves as the chairperson of the organization. At a press conference on 23 October 2023, which announced BSW to the public, she announced that she had leftThe Left party.[16]
In December 2024, theBundestag decided to better protect theFederal Constitutional Court against political attacks. For this purpose, the structure (16 judges and two senates) was incorporated into thebasic law.[17] All parties (CDU/CSU, FDP,A90/Greens, SPD,The Left) voted for the proposed action, except for the right-wingAfD and the BSW. Mohamed Ali described the inclusion of the Bundeverfassungsgericht in the basic law, which can only be changed with a 2/3 majority, as "undemocratic" and "arrogance of those in power".[18]
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