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Filiz Polat
Filiz Polat (born 11 July 1978) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens.
Polat was born on 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, a town in Osnabrück District, Germany, to a Turkish physician father and a German regional politician mother.
She was schooled in Bramsche where she also attended high school. She finished her secondary education in Münster with Abitur and studied Economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt graduating with a thesis on "Employment Effects of Technological Change: A Micro-econometric Approach" in 2002. That year, she administered also an intermediate exam in Political Science.
In 1996, Polat co-founded the Green Youth in her hometown Brasche and joined the party Alliance 90/The Greens. She was active as a member in the city council of Bramsche between 1996 and 2001. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the deputy chairperson of the regional organization in Lower Saxony.
Polat ran in the 2003 regional election for Green Party; however, she missed the entry into the Landtag of Lower Saxony by one place on the electoral list. When Rebecca Harms, the chairperson of the parliamentary group of the Green Party, moved into the European Parliament, Polat took her seat as replacement on 15 September 2004. She was re-elected in the 2008 election in Lower Saxony. Polat became the deputy chairperson of her party's parliamentary group in February 2013. From 2006 Polat also served on the city council of Bramsche again.
Polat served as spokesperson of her party's parliamentary group for policies of migration, Europe and cultural heritage management. Furthermore, she was a member of the Committees on Petitions and European Affairs.
Polat has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 national elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Internal Affairs. She also serves as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for migration issues.
In addition to her committee assignments, Polat has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the German-Pacific Parliamentary Friendship Group, which maintains interparliamentary relations with Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Since 2022, she has also been a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the Assembly, she serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.
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Filiz Polat
Filiz Polat (born 11 July 1978) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens.
Polat was born on 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, a town in Osnabrück District, Germany, to a Turkish physician father and a German regional politician mother.
She was schooled in Bramsche where she also attended high school. She finished her secondary education in Münster with Abitur and studied Economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt graduating with a thesis on "Employment Effects of Technological Change: A Micro-econometric Approach" in 2002. That year, she administered also an intermediate exam in Political Science.
In 1996, Polat co-founded the Green Youth in her hometown Brasche and joined the party Alliance 90/The Greens. She was active as a member in the city council of Bramsche between 1996 and 2001. From 2005 to 2007, she served as the deputy chairperson of the regional organization in Lower Saxony.
Polat ran in the 2003 regional election for Green Party; however, she missed the entry into the Landtag of Lower Saxony by one place on the electoral list. When Rebecca Harms, the chairperson of the parliamentary group of the Green Party, moved into the European Parliament, Polat took her seat as replacement on 15 September 2004. She was re-elected in the 2008 election in Lower Saxony. Polat became the deputy chairperson of her party's parliamentary group in February 2013. From 2006 Polat also served on the city council of Bramsche again.
Polat served as spokesperson of her party's parliamentary group for policies of migration, Europe and cultural heritage management. Furthermore, she was a member of the Committees on Petitions and European Affairs.
Polat has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 national elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Internal Affairs. She also serves as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for migration issues.
In addition to her committee assignments, Polat has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the German-Pacific Parliamentary Friendship Group, which maintains interparliamentary relations with Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Since 2022, she has also been a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the Assembly, she serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.
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