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Munich direct candidates in portrait - the whiz kid: Jamila Schäfer (Greens)

2021-09-14T06:19:05.881Z


The Munich Green candidate Jamila Schäfer has had a steep career in her party at a young age. The candidate portrait.


The Munich Green candidate Jamila Schäfer has had a steep career in her party at a young age.

The candidate portrait.

Munich - Today a discussion about the compatibility of work and family, yesterday about citizens' councils, the day before yesterday a climate policy walk on the Isar - Jamila Schäfer is currently constantly on the move.

The timing continues as she rushes to the interview between two appointments that late morning.

During the conversation it quickly becomes clear that there is actually no topic that the young woman has nothing to say about.

Jamila Schäfer - once on the move - speaks like a book.

But not without periods and commas, but carefully considered.


Bundestag election: Jamila Schäfer: "You need perseverance to achieve something"

For her age, Jamila Schäfer seems amply clarified - and at the age of 28 she has already come a long way with the Greens: She is the party's deputy federal chairwoman and will definitely move into parliament due to her top spot on the list. But there is still a very special claim: “Even as a child I was worried that our constituency was represented by a CSU hardliner. For the first time in a long time, there is now the option of ending this predominance in the south of Munich *, ”says Schäfer. You or Sebastian Roloff from the SPD could steal the direct mandate from the CSU, which Peter Gauweiler won four times in a row from 2002 to 2013 and Michael Kuffer most recently in 2017.

Jamila Schäfer was interested in politics early on.

As a child, she was annoyed by the destruction of nature or the cruelty to animals.

Then there were primeval green issues such as human rights and emancipation.

Schäfer finally found his way into active politics through the protests against the introduction of the G8.

She organized strikes against the school reform and joined the Green Youth.

Even then she learned: "You need perseverance to achieve something."


Bundestag election: Munich's Jamila Schäfer has had a steep career with the Greens

Her career path with the Greens was steep from a young age. She co-wrote the election program, is often in Berlin as deputy head of the federal government and is often a guest on talk shows. Her focus is on European and development policy, the fight against right-wing extremism and the issues of displacement and migration. "But I have not yet had the opportunity to actually shape politics in Parliament," explains Schäfer. This was the mainspring for her to run for office in the south. “I wanted to compete in my home in order to be available to the local people as a political voice in Berlin. For me this is the elixir of life for our democracy. "


Jamila Schäfer grew up in Hadern, went to elementary school there and still lives in the district. During the election campaign, she is present in citizens' office hours and travels - as far as the Corona regulations allow - with beer garden tours through her home district. The Isar in Thalkirchen around the Flaucher has grown dear to her. The young candidate does not want to give up on environmental policy and the challenges posed by climate change. Also against the resistance of lobbyists, “who have no interest in climate protection and absolutely want to prevent the Greens from coming to power”. Schäfer says: "We need change in energy policy and mobility in order to stabilize our community in the long term."


Bundestag election: Jamila Schäfer wants to advocate more freedom of action in transport policy

When it comes to the subject of human rights, the 28-year-old can get into a rage.

Jamila Schäfer criticizes that the federal government has failed to save many people in high risk in Afghanistan.

"It's about human life." You can see in Afghanistan "where it leads when the priorities are on deportation quotas and not on human rights".

This policy is cruel and unrealistic.

Schäfer himself has contact with people in Afghanistan and says that she constantly annoys the Federal Foreign Office so that stuck families can be helped.


In the Berlin Bundestag, she also wants to work to ensure that municipalities have more freedom to shape their transport policy and for a fair housing policy. Jamila Schäfer is so busy with her political work that there has been no time to finish her studies in philosophy and sociology. A small annoyance that should be resolved after the federal election *. Then she wants to finish her thesis, says Schäfer.

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* tz.de / muenchen

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Source: merkur

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