26/02/2025

Reem Alabali-Radovan re-elected to the Bundestag

BERLIN — Reem Alabali-Radovan has been re-elected to the German parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Although she did not win the direct elections for the Schwerin und Westmecklenburg district in last Sunday’s Bundestag elections – she received 34,101 votes (2021: 44,107) – she will still enter parliament because of her ranking on the SPD list and the electoral structure of the German elections.

The Social Democrat has been serving in the Bundestag since 2021 and has held the post of Minister of State and Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

Reem Alabali-Radovan (34) is the first person of Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian descent in the Bundestag. The Alabali family originates from Iraq.

She was born in Russia in 1990. In 1996 Alabali moved to Germany, where she studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and got more politically active for the SPD.