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Dresden 💚🙌🏽 The diversity of this city, which I am honored to represent in the #Bundestag, is simply incredible. This week, among other things, I: 💪🏽had the opportunity to train at @dsc1898 🗣️had a great discussion with three dedicated people about the Neustadt market hall and the issue of vacant properties 💬met entrepreneurs 💚thanked the members of @gruene_dresden_ost for their dedicated campaign work ⚽️finally played with my old soccer club, Süd-West, again ‼️gave a speech – for @gruenedresden and an open, solidarity-based Dresden I hope your week was just as fulfilling. I wish you a blessed Easter! 🌷🙌🏽

Internship in the Bundestag – I'm always happy to receive applications from young people with migration experience and from #EastGermany 🙌🏽 💭 The #Bundestag is an extremely impressive place, and not just for young people. I visited this high house for the first time when I was elected as a member of parliament in 2021. Pretty crazy, right? Children with migration experience, working-class children, and children from East Germany in particular don't have the same access to such structures as other children. That's why I'm happy to be able to empower these very people: Whether it's attending a plenary session, a committee meeting, a team meeting, or providing technical support – my team and I want to share our expertise and exciting insights into parliamentary work. A student intern has also been a great support to us over the past two weeks – thank you for that 🙏🏾💚🤳🔝 Do you know students or pupils with a migration background and/or from East Germany who would like to get a glimpse into parliamentary operations? We look forward to hearing from you! Please send your CV and a short cover letter by email 📧 Kassem & Team 💚

The priorities of the CDU/CSU and SPD are not in construction and housing policy. We urgently need affordable housing that protects the climate. It's also about social cohesion. I spoke about this with @taz.die_tageszeitung #CoalitionAgreement

Where are you looking? #Coalition

Salam, Merhaba, and thank you! A lot of new people have joined here recently: I'm glad you're interested in my political work 🙏🏽🥳 💡 I'm Kassem, 31, a civil engineer, and the first member of the Bundestag from Saxony with migration experience. ❓ Do you have any questions for me? What interests you most? 💚

We Greens stand with the democratic forces in Turkey. We say: Free Them All! Shortly before his nomination as the presidential candidate of the opposition party CHP, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was deposed, arrested, and imprisoned. Once again, President Erdoğan is using his system of politicized justice against democracy. It is his attempt to transform Turkey into a hollowed-out, corrupt one-man state. We demand the immediate release of Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu. We demand the immediate release of Selahattin Demirtaş, former MP, presidential candidate, and leader of our sister party HDP. And we demand the immediate release of Can Atalay, elected MP of the TIP, who belongs at the podium, not in prison! Türkçe Almanya Yeşiller Partisi ve grubu olarak, Türkiye'deki democratik güçlerin yanındayız. Tek sesle diyoruz ki: Tüm siyasi tutsakları serbest bırakın! İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı İmamoğlu'nun derhal serbest bırakılmasını talep ediyoruz. Eski milletvekili, Cumhurbaşkanı adayı ve kardeş partimiz HDP'nin lideri Selahattin Demirtaş'ın derhal serbest bırakılmasını talep ediyoruz. TİP'in seçilmiş milletvekili Can Atalay'ın yeri hapishane değil meclis kürsüsüdür.

Thank you #Cologne 🙏🏽 More than 50,000 people attended the demonstration yesterday and celebrated #Newroz together. Newroz is a symbol of freedom. Newroz is a symbol of democracy. Newroz stands for hope. Newroz stands for a tomorrow in which we all live together peacefully. ✌🏾 📸 1/2 @ismail_sherif1

What a joy that @janilhankizilhan is receiving the Federal Cross of Merit! He helps Yazidi women who survived the crimes of ISIS and tirelessly works to provide them with medical and psychological care. I will never forget our trip to Kurdistan. Thank you for your commitment! #Yezidi #Kurdistan #IS #FederalCross of Merit

Happy New Year! ☀️

AfD in the FC Bundestag ⁉️ We want to exclude the AfD from @fcbundestag, the parliamentarians' football team. This is what our resolution says – the regional court has now ruled that this is not possible under our statutes. Of course, we respect the regional court's decision, but what we can do democratically is change our statutes, because they were written when there were no Nazis in the German Bundestag. For me, playing on a team with AfD politicians who, as their main job, want to destroy our democracy, is out of the question. We can't demand that civil society be courageous against right-wing extremism and then play football with Nazis in our free time. Also: Our team is well-positioned on the far right, so we don't need any more substitutes. More in the interview with @spiegelmagazin ⚽️