This is a first in Germany. A Moroccan-German woman was elected to the Bundestag, the German parliamentary assembly, after the federal elections last Sunday, September 26, 2021.
Sanae Abdi, of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (PSD), won a direct mandate in the federal elections in the constituency of Cologne I in western Germany, the German news agency, Deutsche Presse reports. -Agentur.
According to the preliminary results available, Sanae Abdi, 35, obtained 27.89% of the vote, well ahead of the politician Karsten Möring, 72, of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who was able to collect 22.63% of the votes. votes.
Sanae Abdi, member of the SPD since 2008, was born on July 7, 1986 in Tetouan. After graduating from the Adolf Reichwein Comprehensive School in Lüdenscheid, she studied law in Marburg, Bonn and Cologne.
From 2013 to 2018 she was a research assistant in law firms in Cologne. Since 2018, she has been a project manager specializing in management control at the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).
