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New DGB boss Fahimi: The Bundestag will soon be over
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The new DGB chairwoman Yasmin Fahimi will leave the Bundestag at the end of June.
A spokeswoman told SPIEGEL that Fahimi has an appointment with the President of the Bundestag on June 1 and plans to resign on June 30.
Fahimi had already announced at the beginning of the year that she would resign from parliament if she was elected DGB chairwoman.
So far, she has left it open when she intends to do this.
Some in the SPD parliamentary group had expected her to give up her mandate as soon as she was elected union leader.
Fahimi entered parliament for the second time in the 2021 federal election.
The constituency of the former SPD general secretary is in Hanover.
As far as the gender balance of the SPD parliamentary group is concerned, their departure will probably make no difference.
Former member of the Bundestag Daniela de Ridder is available to replace him via the Lower Saxony state list.
De Ridder did not want to comment on SPIEGEL's request, but the SPD in Lower Saxony is certain that they will make use of the option.
In the last legislative period, de Ridder focused on foreign and security policy.
Fahimi received more than 90 percent of the delegate votes when she was elected to the head of the German Trade Union Confederation.
She succeeds Reiner Hoffmann, who, after two terms in office, has retired for reasons of age.
From 2000 to 2013, Fahimi was union secretary at the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union.
In 2014 and 2015 she held the office of SPD General Secretary and in 2016 and 2017 she was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
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