Tanja Machalet
Tanja Machalet (2014)
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
October 2021
ConstituencyMontabaur
Personal details
Born (1974-05-01) 1 May 1974 (age 49)
Political partySPD

Tanja Machalet (née Breuer, born 1 May 1974)[1] is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Machalet became a member of the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election and she represents the constituency of Montabaur.[2]

Political career

Career in state politics

Machalet was deputy federal chairman of the Jusos from 1999 to 2003, of which she had been a member since 1991.[3] In 2009, she was the SPD's candidate for district administrator in the Westerwald district, but lost to Achim Schwickert of the CDU. In 2011 and 2016, Machalet ran for the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in the electoral district of Montabaur and entered the state parliament for the SPD on the state list in both cases. In the legislative period from 2016, she was a member of the Budget and Finance Committee, the Committee for Social Affairs and Labor, and the Committee for Health, Care and Demography. She was also the budget policy spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary group.[4]

Machalet is a member of the municipal council of the Wallmerod municipality[5] and the district council of the Westerwald district.

In March 2020, Machalet announced that she would not run again in the election for the 18th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. The district executive of the SPD in the Westerwaldkreis nominated Machalet to succeed Gabi Weber in the Bundestag constituency of Montabaur for the election to the 20th German Bundestag. On March 20, 2021, she was elected by the relevant delegate conference as the SPD direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Montabaur.[6]

Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present

In the 2021 elections, Machalet was elected to the German Bundestag as a direct candidate in the Montabaur constituency.[7]

Within her parliamentary group, Machalet belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Tanja Machalet, geb. Breuer". tanja-machalet.de (in German). Archived from the original on 31 October 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Bundestagswahl 2021 - 204: Montabaur". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Archived from the original on 9 October 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ^ "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Tanja Machalet" (in German). Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Verbandsgemeinderat" (in German). Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  6. ^ "SPD wählt Dr. Tanja Machalet zur Bundestagskandidatin für den Wahlkreis 204 Montabaur". www.ww-kurier.de. 23 March 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  7. ^ Aktuell, S. W. R. "Tanja Machalet gewinnt den Wahlkreis Montabaur". swr.online (in German). Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  8. ^ Members Parliamentary Left.
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