Sunday, May 9, 2021

Germany has a new political rising star

According to the most recent polls German Green Party c0-leader Annalena Baerbock has overtaken Angela Merkel’s CDU Party ahead of Federal elections in Germany in September.

Baerbock was born in 1980 and grew up on a farm near Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony.

She speaks fluent English. She studied political science and law at Hamburg University and did a Masters in International Law at the London School of Economics.

Baerbock joined the Green Party in 2005. In 2013 she became a member of the Bundestag - German Parliament, representing Brandenburg.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/03/polls-put-german-green-party-in-lead-five-months-before-election

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