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Anne Spiegel in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate
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The future head of the Family and Women's Ministry, Anne Spiegel (Greens), has decided, according to SPIEGEL information, who will be her official state secretary.
Accordingly, she will bring Margit Gottstein (Greens) into the ministry.
Gottstein takes over from Juliane Seifert (SPD), who had been State Secretary in the ministry since 2018.
Gottstein has been State Secretary in the Senate Department for Justice of Berlin for anti-discrimination and consumer protection since 2016, before that she was State Secretary in the Family Ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate.
From 2004 to 2011 she was head of department for fundamental questions of integration policy at the integration commissioner in the Federal Chancellery.
Among other things, Spiegel would like to focus on equality
In her work as minister, Spiegel would like to focus on gender equality and anti-discrimination work.
She told SPIEGEL that she wanted to ensure that all laws and measures were subjected to an "equality check."
In Rhineland-Palatinate, Spiegel was minister for families and integration from 2016 to 2021, and has been state minister for the environment since May 2021.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, she implemented a liberal refugee policy and, for example, blocked the classification of the Maghreb states as safe countries of origin in the Federal Council.
It has been known for a few days who will become Spiegel's parliamentary state secretaries.
The social politician Sven Lehmann and the family politician Ekin Deligöz will support Spiegel in their political tasks in the future.
Parliamentary state secretaries must be members of the German Bundestag, civil servants state secretaries are the highest-ranking officials in a ministry and represent ministers in the function of heads of authorities.
