Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth wants to run for the Bundestag again for the Greens. “Especially now, after the Election successes of anti-democrats in two federal states“It is more important than ever to show attitude and determination for our democracy and social cohesion,” the 69-year-old told the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. “That is what I am running for.”
This aims Roth her eighth term since 1998. The Green politician is running again for the Augsburg constituency. In the last federal election in 2021, she missed the direct mandate in her Swabian homeland with 20.6 percent, but as the top candidate of the Bavarian Greens, she was able to enter the Bundestag again.
Roth, who was once manager of the rock band “Ton, Steine, Scherben”, wants to continue to represent the Bavarian city in the Bundestag. “My hometown of Augsburg, like many cities in our country, is strongly characterized by living together in diversity”she said.
Roth was party leader from 2001 to 2013 the Greens and Vice President of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, she was elected to the 20th legislative period of the German Bundestag as Minister of State for Culture and Media of the red-green-yellow federal government. (dpa)
