German politician
Isabel Mackensen-Geis (born 29 September 1986 as Isabel Mackensen ) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of the Bundestag , the German parliament, since 2019.
Early life and education
Mackensen-Geis was born in Schwetzingen and grew up in Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim (where she still has her home).[ 1] After passing her Abitur in 2006 at the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium (secondary school) in Neustadt an der Weinstraße , she studied political science and history at the University of Trier , graduating with an MA in 2012.[ 2]
Political career
Mackensen-Geis became an SPD member in 2009[ 2] and was chair of the Palatinate regional section of the Young Socialists in the SPD from 2013 to 2017.[ 3] In 2019, she was elected a member of the district council of Bad Dürkheim .[ 4]
In the 2017 German federal election , Mackensen was the SPD candidate for the Neustadt – Speyer district and came second with 25.3% of the vote.[ 5] Mackensen became a Bundestag member via her party list after Katarina Barley , having been elected to the European Parliament , resigned her seat in the German parliament.[ 1] She served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and was re-elected via the SPD-list in the 2021 German federal election .
Within her parliamentary group, Mackensen-Geis belongs to the Parliamentary Left , a left-wing movement.[ 6]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections , Mackensen-Geis was part of her party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy , co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter , Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner .[ 7]
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