Ekin Deligöz position held member of the German Bundestag
Ekin Deligöz (born 21 April 1971) is a Turkish-German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. She has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 1998.Political career
Deligöz joined the Greens as a student member and belonged to the Bavaria chapter of the Greens' youth organization. She entered the Bundestag in 1998, and was re-elected in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Deligöz was re-elected for the fourth time into the federal parliament following the 2013 election. She is one of the eleven politicians of Turkish descent who won a seat in the federal parliament, including seven women.Between 2002 and 2005, Deligöz served as Chief Whip of the Green Party's parliamentary group. From 2009 until 2013, she part of the group's leadership around co-chairs Renate Künast and Jürgen Trittin. In this capacity, she was part of a series of round table talks in 2010 and 2011 to tackle a wave of child sexual abuse cases, including numerous allegations of abuse in the Roman Catholic Church; the talks were jointly chaired by ministers Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Annette Schavan, and Kristina Schröder.A member of the Budget Committee and as deputy chairwoman of the Audit Committee from 2013 until 2021, Deligöz served as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budgets of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS); the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); the Federal Ministry of Health (2013-2017); the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ); the Office of the Federal President (2013–2021); the Federal Foreign Office (2018–2021); and the Federal Court of Auditors (2018–2021).
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Deligöz was part of her party's delegation in the working group on children, youth and families, co-chaired by Serpil Midyatli, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Stephan Thomae.
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