Amira Mohamed Ali

Amira Mohamed Ali (born 16 January 1980) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag since 2017. Since 12 November 2019, she has been the parliamentary co-chairperson of The Left alongside Dietmar Bartsch.

Amira Mohamed Ali
Mohamed Ali in 2019
Chairwoman of The Left in the Bundestag
Assumed office
12 November 2019
Serving with Dietmar Bartsch
Preceded bySahra Wagenknecht
Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony
Assumed office
24 October 2017
ConstituencyThe Left Party List
Personal details
Born
Amira Mohamed Ali

(1980-01-16) 16 January 1980
Hamburg, West Germany (present-day Germany)
Political partyThe Left

Life

Amira Mohamed Ali was born in Hamburg and grew up in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. Her father is from Egypt and her mother is German.[1][2] After graduating from the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg-Winterhude in 1998, Mohamed Ali studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Hamburg, 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 of IG Metall and the German Animal Welfare Association.

Mohamed Ali is married and has lived in Oldenburg since 2005.[1][4][5]

Political activity

Mohamed Ali has been a board member of the Oldenburg/Ammerland district association of the party Die Linke in Lower 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 the Oldenburg-Ammerland constituency in the 2017 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 for consumer protection and for animal protection of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[13]

On 12 November 2019, she was elected as Sahra Wagenknecht's successor–alongside Dietmar Bartsch–as co-chair of the parliamentary group. Mohamed Ali won in a competitive vote against Caren Lay, 36 votes to 29.[14]

Political positions

Like her predecessor Wagenknecht, Mohamed Ali is considered part of the left wing of her party. In contrast to Wagenknecht, she is open to a possible red-red-green coalition.[15]

References
  1. "Amira Mohamed Ali (MdB, Die Linke): Folge 404". Jung & Naiv. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. Amira Mohamed Ali: Erfrischend unverkrampft in ihrer neuen Chefrolle, sueddeutsche.de, 13 November 2019
  3. Fraktion DIE LINKE im Bundestag. "Profil". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  4. "Bundestagskandidatin Amira Mohamed Ali zu Gast im Sozialcafé". 9 April 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  5. "Linke stellt Amira Mohamed Ali auf". Nordwest-Zeitung. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  6. Holger Onken. "Kreisvorstand – Die Linke Oldenburg". Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  7. "Die Linke stellt Kandidaten vor". 22 April 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  8. Nordwest-Zeitung (12 September 2016). "Kommunalwahl 2016: So hat Oldenburg gewählt". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  9. Nordwest-Zeitung (20 September 2017). "Kandidaten Für Die Bundestagswahl Oldenburg: Wieder kein Oldenburger im Berliner Reichstag?". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  10. Nordwest-Zeitung (28 July 2017). "Interaktive Karte Zur Wahl 2017: Wer für den Nordwesten in den Bundestag will". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  11. "Gewählte auf Landeslisten der Parteien in Niedersachsen – Der Bundeswahlleiter". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  12. "Deutscher Bundestag – Amira Mohamed Ali". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  13. Fraktion DIE LINKE im Bundestag. "SprecherInnen". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  14. "Nachfolge von Sahra Wagenknecht: Amira Mohamed Ali ist neue Co-Chefin der Linksfraktion". Spiegel Online. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  15. Neue Chefin der Linksfraktion ist offen für Bündnis mit Grünen und SPD. In Zeit Online. 30 November 2019. In Zeit.de, accessed 8 December 2019.
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