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Caren Lay
Caren Nicole Lay (born 11 December 1972) is a German politician (Die Linke). She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.
Born in Neuwied, Lay comes from a working-class family. After graduating from high school in Andernach, she studied sociology with a focus on political science and women's studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, as well as in Pennsylvania. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she first worked as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin from 1999 to 2000, and as a parliamentary-scientific advisor in the PDS faction of the Landtag of Saxony in Dresden from 2000 to 2003. She then moved to the Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture as a speechwriter for Renate Künast, the Federal Minister responsible at the time. In the course of the protests against the Agenda 2010 of the red-green government, Lay joined the PDS in 2004.
Lay was a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 2004 to 2009, deputy leader of the Left Party, and spokesperson for labor market policy. In addition, she was Parliamentary Secretary of the parliamentary group from 2007 to 2009. In addition, she was a member of the board there, a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport, as well as Chairwoman of the 2nd Committee of Inquiry into the Corruption Affair and Chairwoman of the 1st Commission of Enquiry on Demographic Development.
Since 2009, Caren Lay has been a member of the Bundestag. She was elected to the Bundestag via the Saxony state list. The party nominated her as one of its eight top candidates in January 2013. In October 2013 she became deputy parliamentary party leader and head of the working group "Structural and Regional Policy." From 2009 until the end of 2015, she was the spokesperson for consumer policy in her parliamentary group. Since January 2016, Lay has been spokesperson for rent, construction and housing policy for the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Bundestag. After the Bundestag elections in 2017, she was elected as deputy leader of the parliamentary group.
In March 2014, the Bundestag lifted her immunity so that the Dresden public prosecutor's office could continue to investigate against her; Lay had participated in a obstructing a Nazi demonstration in Dresden in 2011. Lay and her parliamentary group colleague Michael Leutert, who was also affected, rejected criminal prosecution as unlawful, citing an expert opinion of the Bundestag's Scientific Service, according to which the Saxon Assembly Act was not valid at the time of the crime due to a formal error and the Federal Act was not applicable to the demonstrators. The Immunity Committee did not follow this opinion. On 12 February 2015, the Dresden public prosecutor's office discontinued the proceedings without conditions or payments on the grounds that the guilt appeared to be slight.
On 12 November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as Co-Chairwoman of the Left Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag. She lost to Amira Mohamed Ali by 29 votes to 36.
From 2007 to 2018, Lay was a member of the executive committee of the party Die Linke. She was Federal Executive Director from 2010 to 2012, and then Deputy Chairwoman, from 2012 to 2018, of her party. When the party executive committee was re-elected in June 2018, she decided not to run for office again, stating that she wanted to concentrate on her work as deputy parliamentary party leader in the Bundestag.
Lay is considered a representative of the libertarian, undogmatic spectrum of her party. In autumn 2006 she initiated the foundation of the Emancipatory Left, together with Katja Kipping.
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Caren Lay
Caren Nicole Lay (born 11 December 1972) is a German politician (Die Linke). She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.
Born in Neuwied, Lay comes from a working-class family. After graduating from high school in Andernach, she studied sociology with a focus on political science and women's studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, as well as in Pennsylvania. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she first worked as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin from 1999 to 2000, and as a parliamentary-scientific advisor in the PDS faction of the Landtag of Saxony in Dresden from 2000 to 2003. She then moved to the Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture as a speechwriter for Renate Künast, the Federal Minister responsible at the time. In the course of the protests against the Agenda 2010 of the red-green government, Lay joined the PDS in 2004.
Lay was a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 2004 to 2009, deputy leader of the Left Party, and spokesperson for labor market policy. In addition, she was Parliamentary Secretary of the parliamentary group from 2007 to 2009. In addition, she was a member of the board there, a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport, as well as Chairwoman of the 2nd Committee of Inquiry into the Corruption Affair and Chairwoman of the 1st Commission of Enquiry on Demographic Development.
Since 2009, Caren Lay has been a member of the Bundestag. She was elected to the Bundestag via the Saxony state list. The party nominated her as one of its eight top candidates in January 2013. In October 2013 she became deputy parliamentary party leader and head of the working group "Structural and Regional Policy." From 2009 until the end of 2015, she was the spokesperson for consumer policy in her parliamentary group. Since January 2016, Lay has been spokesperson for rent, construction and housing policy for the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Bundestag. After the Bundestag elections in 2017, she was elected as deputy leader of the parliamentary group.
In March 2014, the Bundestag lifted her immunity so that the Dresden public prosecutor's office could continue to investigate against her; Lay had participated in a obstructing a Nazi demonstration in Dresden in 2011. Lay and her parliamentary group colleague Michael Leutert, who was also affected, rejected criminal prosecution as unlawful, citing an expert opinion of the Bundestag's Scientific Service, according to which the Saxon Assembly Act was not valid at the time of the crime due to a formal error and the Federal Act was not applicable to the demonstrators. The Immunity Committee did not follow this opinion. On 12 February 2015, the Dresden public prosecutor's office discontinued the proceedings without conditions or payments on the grounds that the guilt appeared to be slight.
On 12 November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as Co-Chairwoman of the Left Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag. She lost to Amira Mohamed Ali by 29 votes to 36.
From 2007 to 2018, Lay was a member of the executive committee of the party Die Linke. She was Federal Executive Director from 2010 to 2012, and then Deputy Chairwoman, from 2012 to 2018, of her party. When the party executive committee was re-elected in June 2018, she decided not to run for office again, stating that she wanted to concentrate on her work as deputy parliamentary party leader in the Bundestag.
Lay is considered a representative of the libertarian, undogmatic spectrum of her party. In autumn 2006 she initiated the foundation of the Emancipatory Left, together with Katja Kipping.