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German politician (born 1993)

Melis Sekmen
Sekmen in 2023
Member of the Bundestag
for Baden-Württemberg
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Personal details
Born (1993-09-26) 26 September 1993 (age 31)
Mannheim, Germany
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens (until July 2024)
CDU (since July 2024)

Melis Sekmen (born 26 September 1993) is a German politician. She is a member of the German Bundestag from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She previously was a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She is of Turkish descent.

Political career

In the Bundestag, Sekmen serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.

Elected as a Green in 2021, she resigned from her former party and its Bundestag fraction on 1 July 2024, intending to apply for membership in the CDU and the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group. Sekmen said, "My idea of how and in what style politics is done has evolved." Sekmen's differences of opinion with the Green Party's majority line had recently become apparent primarily in the areas of migration and the economy; for example, she had called for a "change of course" in migration and integration policy. She also cited her recognition of the Union's new basic program as a reason for the switch. On 9 July, Sekmen was admitted to the CDU. She is thus the first Green member of the Bundestag to switch to the Union parties since Vera Lengsfeld in 1996, and the third CDU member of Turkish origin after Cemile Giousouf and Serap Güler.

References

  1. "18 lawmakers of Turkish descent win seat in Germany's Bundestag". Hürriyet Daily News. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly Bundestag.
  3. "Sekmen wechselt zu Unionsfraktion" (in German). 2 July 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  4. "Wir brauchen einen Kurswechsel in der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik". Melis Sekmen MdB (in German). 11 June 2024.
  5. "Obfrau der Grünen im Wirtschaftsausschuss wechselt zur CDU". Manager (in German). 2 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  6. "Ex-Grüne: CDU-Kreisverband Mannheim nimmt Melis Sekmen auf". SWR Aktuell (in German). 9 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  7. "Melis Sekmen: Grünen-Abgeordnete wechselt zur Union". Die Welt (in German). 2 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.

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