Martin Schirdewan

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Martin Schirdewan
MEP
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Schirdewan in 2022
Leader of The Left
Assumed office
25 June 2022
Serving with Janine Wissler
Deputy Ates Gürpinar
Lorenz Gösta Beutin
Katina Schubert
Jana Seppelt
Preceded by Susanne Hennig-Wellsow
Leader of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Assumed office
18 July 2019
Serving with Manon Aubry
Preceded by Gabriele Zimmer
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
8 November 2017
Preceded by Fabio De Masi
Personal details
Born (1975-07-12) 12 July 1975 (age 48)
East Berlin, East Germany (now Germany)
Political party The Left
Children 1
Alma mater Free University of Berlin (Dr. rer. pol.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Journalist
  • Political Staffer
Website Official website

Martin Schirdewan (born 12 July 1975) is a German journalist and politician who is serving as co-chairman of The Left since June 2022. He has sat as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2017, and was elected co-chair of The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) parliamentary group in 2019.[1]

Political career

Schirdewan was born in East Berlin. From 1998 to 2003, he studied at the Free University of Berlin, before achieving a doctorate in political science in 2007.[2]

Between 2001 and 2008, Schirdewan was editor of the magazine Utopie kreativ (Creative Utopia), published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. From 2006 until 2015, he was a researcher for a Bundestag member from The Left and was senior editor of Sacco & Vanzetti, the youth magazine of socialist daily newspaper Neues Deutschland. From 2015 until his appointment to the European Parliament, he was head of the Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and of its Athens "liaison office", as well as establishing a liaison office in Madrid. From 2012 to 2015 and again in 2018, Schirdewan served on the party executive of The Left.[2] Since being appointed to the European Parliament, Schirdewan has served as a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), and as a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).[1]

Schirdewan was one of The Left's top candidates in the 2019 European Parliament election in Germany alongside Özlem Demirel.[3] The party won 5.5% of votes and five seats, making it the joint second largest party in the GUE/NGL group by seat count, behind Syriza and tied with La France Insoumise. In the new Parliament, Schirdewan was elected co-chair of the GUE/NGL faction alongside French MEP Manon Aubry.

At a federal Left congress in June 2022, Schirdewan was elected co-leader of the party with 341 votes (61.3%) alongside incumbent Janine Wissler. He was challenged by several candidates, including Sören Pellmann, who won 176 votes (31.6%).[4][5] Within the party, he is considered a reformer close in outlook to moderates such as Dietmar Bartsch.[6]

Political Positions

On 2 March 2022, Schirdewan was one of 13 MEPs who voted against a motion condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He stated that, though he condemned the invasion as a blatant breach of international law, he opposed arms shipments to Ukraine on the grounds that it violated EU directives on exports to war and crisis zones.[7]

On 15 September 2022, he was one of 16 MEPs who voted against condemning President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua for human rights violations, in particular the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez. [8][9]

Personal life

Schirdewan is a grandson of East German politician Karl Schirdewan and his wife Gisela. [10]

References

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