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Niema Movassat (born August 22, 1984 in Wuppertal ) is a member of the German Bundestag for the party Die Linke .

Life and work

Movassat was born in Wuppertal as the son of an Iranian engineer and an Iranian X-ray assistant. When he was three years old, his family moved with him to Oberhausen . Here he first attended the Adolf-Feld-Grundschule and in 2004 passed his Abitur at the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium . He then graduated from the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf studying law , he in April 2009 with the First State Examination as a graduate lawyer graduated. In the same year, at the suggestion of the left - wing youth Solid NRW, he was elected to eighth place on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia of the party Die Linke, through which he then entered the Bundestag. At the same time he ran as a direct candidate in constituency 118 Oberhausen / Wesel III .

In 2014 Movassat started the Master of Laws course at the Distance University in Hagen , which he successfully completed in 2016. He is married and has a daughter.

Political party

Niema Movassat joined the youth association ['solid] - the socialist youth in June 2000 and joined the PDS in August of the same year . The reason for joining the party was the first war deployment of German soldiers since 1945, which took place in Kosovo in 1999 . From 2002 to 2005 he was state spokesman in North Rhine-Westphalia in the youth association. In 2003 he was elected to the state board of the PDS NRW. In the Linkspartei.PDS and the Left, he continued to be a member of the state executive as youth policy spokesman until autumn 2008. At the same time, he was also the national association's domestic and legal policy spokesman from 2007. From May 2008 to May 2010, Niema Movassat was a spokesman for youth policy on the left party executive. In September 2018 he criticized his party colleague Sahra Wagenknecht and her collection movement. This could harm the left and is dangerous.

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From January 2007 to October 2009 he was a member of the Oberhausen - Sterkrade district council .

On September 27, 2009 Movassat was elected to the 17th Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a member of the German Bundestag since then . He was the youngest member of his parliamentary group until Yvonne Ploetz replaced Oskar Lafontaine , who had resigned, in February 2010 . Until 2017, Movassat was chairman of the committee for economic cooperation and development as well as deputy in the foreign affairs committee and spokesman for world food for the parliamentary group Die Linke. From 2009 to 2013 he was chairman of his group in the subcommittee on health in developing countries.

Movassat came under fire in July 2014 for participating as a speaker at a demonstration against the Gaza war in Essen. At this, posters were shown with statements such as "allegedly victims in the past, now perpetrators" or symbols with entwined Star of David and swastika. This prompted the party leadership of the Left to clarify that “acting together with anti-Semites” was out of the question for the Left Party.

In the 2017 Bundestag election, he moved into the German Bundestag again at number 6 on the list for Die Linke NRW. In the new legislative period he is the chairman of his parliamentary group in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. He is also the constitutional and drug policy spokesman for his group.

On June 15, 2020, Niema Movassat announced in a public statement that she would not run for the German Bundestag again in 2021. a. that three legislative terms are sufficient for him.

Works

Web links

Commons : Niema Movassat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de
  2. ↑ Gil Eilin Jung: Niema Movassat - Der Youngster In: Legal Tribun Online (accessed June 21, 2010)
  3. ↑ Paul Starzmann: Left politician criticizes collection movement - "Sahra makes the left bad". In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 5, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Anna Lehmann: After criticizing # indivisible call: Wagenknecht feels bullied. In: The daily newspaper . October 15, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Meisner: Anti-Semitism dispute in the Left Federal Party ruffles comrades in North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 24, 2014, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Time for change - personal statement by Niema Movassat on the federal election in 2021. In: www.movassat.de. June 15, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Movassat, Niema
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DIE LINKE), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal