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 39) Tétouan, Morocco |
| 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]
Abdi 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 incumbentKarsten Möring for the direct mandate.[3]
In parliament, Abdi has since been serving on the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development[4] and as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for development policy.[5] From 2022 to 2025, she was also a member of the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy and its Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy.[6] In 2025, she joined the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.
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]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2025 German elections, Abdi was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense, development cooperation and human rights, led byJohann Wadephul,Florian Hahn andSvenja Schulze.[8]
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