Radical left-wing politician Vanessa Emde becomes part of the left-wing faction

Left-wing MP Vanessa Emde will be a member of the new parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. The left-wing faction agreed on this at its constituent meeting on Tuesday, as WELT learned.

Emde is considered one of the central figures of the anti-Israel party movement. During the election campaign she implicitly denied Israel's right to exist; at the election party she posed next to the terrorist supporter Ibrahim Ibrahim. In the House of Representatives election, Emde won the direct mandate in Neukölln with more than 46 percent of the initial votes.

The Left, the Greens and the SPD are currently talking about forming a government in Berlin. Last week, the three parties agreed on a “mechanism” to deal with anti-Semitism. If a member of one of the three factions makes anti-Semitic comments, three external experts will decide on the seriousness of the offense before the factions seek to expel the member.

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