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Ska Keller (2019)

Franziska Maria "Ska" Keller (born November 22, 1981 in Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Keller was first elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 European elections. She was re-elected in the European elections in 2014 and 2019 , in both elections she ran as a co-lead candidate for the European Green Party , and in the 2019 election as a lead candidate for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. In the European Parliament, she is part of the Greens / EFA group , which she has chaired together with Philippe Lamberts since 2016.

Life

Ska Keller was born in 1981 in Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben (today Guben) in Lower Lusatia in Brandenburg. Her father was a doctor. She grew up in the border region and as a teenager she became involved in an anti- fascist group against right-wing extremists in the city .

Keller studied Islamic Studies , Turkish Studies and Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the private Sabancı University in Istanbul and completed her studies in 2010 as a Magistra . Keller is married to the Finland- Swede Markus Drake, with whom she lives in Brussels .

In addition to German, she speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and some Turkish.

politics

Commitment to the Brandenburg Greens

From 2001, Keller was a member of the Green Youth and from 2002 to 2004 an assessor on its federal board. From 2005 to 2007 she was the spokesperson for the Federation of Young European Greens .

In 2009, Keller was elected to the European Parliament for the first time.

In 2002 she joined the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and had been a member of the board of the Brandenburg State Association since 2005 . Between 2005 and 2009 she was managing director of the Spree-Neisse Green District Association . In November 2007 she was elected together with Axel Vogel as one of two equal board spokesmen for the Brandenburg Greens. Until 2009 she was chairwoman of the Brandenburg State Association of the Greens. In this office she was particularly committed to a nationwide referendum against new opencast mines in Brandenburg, which was initiated jointly by political parties and environmental associations .

Election to the European Parliament in 2009

In the European elections in 2009 , Ska Keller was elected to the European Parliament for the first time. She joined the group The Greens / EFA , for which she was a member of the 7th legislature (2009–2014) in the Committee on Development (2009–2012) and in the Committee on International Trade (2012–2014). Furthermore, Keller was a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2009–2014).

Promotion in the European Parliament

In the 2019 European elections , Keller ran as one of the two top candidates for the European Greens. In the picture one of the discussion rounds of the top candidates, left of her Nico Cué ( EL ), right of her Jan Zahradil ( EKR )

In the 2014 European elections , the European Green Party determined its top candidates for the first time using an open, Europe-wide area code on the Internet, in which almost 23,000 people took part. Keller was able to win the area code together with the French Green José Bové . On the federal list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for the European elections, however, Keller was only nominated in third place. The top candidate was Rebecca Harms , who was still inferior to Keller in the Europe-wide area code. In the 8th legislature, Keller was a member of the Committee on International Trade (2014–2017) and a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2014–2019). At the beginning of the legislature, the parliamentary group members of the Greens / EFA elected Keller as deputy chairmen. Halfway through the legislature, in December 2016, Keller took over the co-chairmanship of Rebecca Harms. Since then, Keller has led the parliamentary group together with Philippe Lamberts .

Ska Keller at the constitution of the 9th European Parliament on July 3, 2019

For the 2019 European elections , Ska Keller ran for the party's top candidacy at the European Green Party conference in Berlin in November 2018. Keller prevailed in the primary against the Belgian Petra De Sutter and led the European election campaign together with the Dutch Bas Eickhout . Her German party, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, also voted her first on the European elections list in November 2018. Both her party and the European Greens as a whole clearly won the election, making the Greens / EFA the fourth largest group in the European Parliament.

Due to the strong gains of the party and the growth of the group (and the loss of votes in the groups of the European People's Party and the Socialists), the Greens, and with them Ska Keller, played a greater role than before in the run-up to the constitution of the European Parliament. At the time of the constitution, Keller ran for the office of President of Parliament in order to contradict the personal tableau proposed by the European Council , which ran counter to the principle of the European Spitzenkandidaten. However, Keller was unable to prevail against the Italian Social Democrat David Sassoli .

In addition to her role as co-chair of the Greens / EFA group, she is also a deputy member of the Fisheries Committee in the 9th legislative period (2019-2024) .

Web links

Commons : Ska Keller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ »The small talk has politicized me« , Neues Deutschland , March 9, 2009
  2. ↑ Stefanie Flamm: Ska Keller: Out of Guben , Die Zeit , March 16, 2017
  3. ^ Ska Keller MEP: Vita. In: Homepage Ska Keller. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b c Claudia Kade, Christoph B. Schiltz: Ska Keller: Ex-punk leads Greens in EU elections . In: The world . January 29, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed May 8, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Lisa Caspari: Young, friendly, dangerous. In: Zeit Online . 1st of February 2014.
  6. ↑ a b c curriculum vitae | Ska BASEMENT | MPs | European Parliament. In: European Parliament website. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Send your grandpa to Europe" is no longer valid , Die Welt, January 25, 2017
  8. ↑ 7th legislative term | Ska BASEMENT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Claudia Kade: European Parliament: Greens put European candidates online for election . In: The world . November 12, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed May 8, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Ska Keller is the top candidate for the European Greens. In: Spiegel Online , January 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ Hannah Beitzer: Experience beats youth . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 8, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 8, 2019]).
  12. ↑ 8th legislative term | Ska BASEMENT | MPs | European Parliament. In: European Parliament website. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ European Greens 2019 campaign - Let's act. Together! Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ European elections in May: Ska Keller is the top candidate of the European Greens . In: Spiegel Online . November 24, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 8, 2019]).
  15. ↑ David Sassoli elected President of the European Parliament | News | European Parliament. March 7, 2019, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  16. ↑ 9th legislative term | Ska BASEMENT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Basement, ska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Franziska Maria (full name); Keller, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben , GDR