Germany’s new Parliament will have two transgender female MPs for the first time

The new Federal Parliament (Bundestag), emanated from the general elections held yesterday in GermanyIt will have its first transgender representatives, two deputies from the ranks of the Greens.

The new deputies are Tessa Ganserer, 44 years old and from Bavaria (south), and Nyke Slawik, 27, from North Rhine-Westphalia (west). Both expressed their satisfaction for the success through their Twitter accounts, as well as the milestone it represents for their group.

“I hope that we have written a new chapter in politics and that the marginalization of transgender people is ended.Slawik wrote.

The two deputies were included in the list of the Verdes of their respective districts. The environmental party achieved at the federal level the best result in its history, 14.8%, 5.8% more than in the previous elections of 2017.

The Greens will foreseeably be a key factor in the formation of the next government, probably a tripartite with the Liberal Party (FDP) and under the leadership of the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, the party with the most votes with 25.7%, or the conservative Armin Laschet, who obtained 24.1%.

SOME WEIGHT DEFEATS

On the other hand, several prominent names from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Laschet’s party, did not achieve their goal of entering the chamber by direct mandate – or victory in their district.

Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner was defeated in her Rhineland Palatinate (west) district by Social Democratic rival Joe Weingarten. The same happened to Philipp Amthor, considered until recently a young promise of the CDU, who fell in his district of Mecklenburg-Antepomerania (north) before the also Social Democrat Enrico Komning.

The former head of the secret services Hans Georg Maassen – a controversial figure in the CDU due to his proximity to the far right – also lost in the district of Thuringia (east) for which he had presented his candidacy to Frank Ulrich, also a Social Democrat.

Nor did Georg Günther, 33, a candidate for the CDU in Stralsund, the district in which Angela Merkel’s political career began in 1990, and the one in which the Chancellor continued to achieve her victory in successive elections. , until now, when he retired.

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