Berlin's Left Party seeks to remove MP over Mideast politics

NAMPA / DPA

2026-11-10

Berlin (dpa) - Berlin's Left Party is moving to expel a lawmaker from its parliamentary group after she rejected calls to give up her seat over her stance on the Middle East, a dispute weighing on the city's coalition talks following the party's election victory. In the September 20 election, Vanessa Emde won a direct mandate in her Neukölln district, which is heavily populated with immigrants from the Middle East and Turkey. Emde has been accuse......

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