Amira Mohamed Ali (Arabic: أميرة محمد علي; born 16 January 1980) is a German politician and member of the Bundestag since 2017. From 12 November 2019 till October 2023, she was the parliamentary co-chairperson of The Left alongside Dietmar Bartsch. In October 2023, she left The Left alongside others like Sahra Wagenknecht to found a new party. Mohamed Ali is the chairwoman of the board of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht-Association which was founded to prepare a new party in January 2024.
Amira Mohamed Ali | |
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 Mohamed Ali in 2024 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amira Mohamed Ali 16 January 1980 Hamburg, West Germany |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Political party | Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023) |
| Other political affiliations | The Left (until 2023) |
Life
editAmira Mohamed Ali was born in Hamburg and grew up in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. Her father is Egyptian 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
editMohamed 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]
In 2023, the dispute between left-wing populist and conservative Sarah Wagenknecht and the party leadership came to a head. Wagenknecht put forward the prospect of founding her own party. In August 2023, Mohamed Ali, who belongs to the Wagenknecht Group, announced that she would stepping back from co-chair of parliamentary group because of the dispute. It is difficult for her, to represent the course of the party board in the Bundestag, she said.[15]
Political positions
editLike her predecessor Wagenknecht, Mohamed Ali was considered part of the left wing of The Left, her former party.
Founding a new party and leaving The Left
editMohamed Ali was involved in the founding of Bündnis 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 left The Left party.[16]
References
edit- ^ a b "Amira Mohamed Ali (MdB, Die Linke): Folge 404". Jung & Naiv. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Amira Mohamed Ali: Erfrischend unverkrampft in ihrer neuen Chefrolle, sueddeutsche.de, 13 November 2019
- ^ a b c Fraktion DIE LINKE im Bundestag. "Profil". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Bundestagskandidatin Amira Mohamed Ali zu Gast im Sozialcafé". 9 April 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ "Linke stellt Amira Mohamed Ali auf". Nordwest-Zeitung. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ Holger Onken. "Kreisvorstand – Die Linke Oldenburg". Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Die Linke stellt Kandidaten vor". 22 April 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung (12 September 2016). "Kommunalwahl 2016: So hat Oldenburg gewählt". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung (20 September 2017). "Kandidaten Für Die Bundestagswahl Oldenburg: Wieder kein Oldenburger im Berliner Reichstag?". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung (28 July 2017). "Interaktive Karte Zur Wahl 2017: Wer für den Nordwesten in den Bundestag will". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Gewählte auf Landeslisten der Parteien in Niedersachsen – Der Bundeswahlleiter". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag – Amira Mohamed Ali". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ Fraktion DIE LINKE im Bundestag. "SprecherInnen". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Nachfolge von Sahra Wagenknecht: Amira Mohamed Ali ist neue Co-Chefin der Linksfraktion". Spiegel Online. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ "Rückzug von Mohamed Ali: Bartsch warnt vor Ende der Linksfraktion". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Die Linke: Fraktionschefin gibt Amt wegen Streits über Sahra Wagenknecht ab". Der Spiegel (in German). 6 August 2023. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
External links
edit- Biography at the Bundestag
- Amira Mohamed Ali at abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Official website Archived 23 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- Profile on the website of the Left Party faction in the Bundestag
- Jung & Naiv: Interview mit Amira Mohamed Ali on YouTube