Elke Twesten

Elke Twesten
Twesten in 2009
Member of the
Landtag of Lower Saxony
In office
26 February 2008 – 14 November 2017
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyAlliance 90/The Greens List
Member of the
Rotenburg District Council
In office
1 November 2006 – 31 October 2021
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyAlliance 90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born
Elke Twesten

(1963-07-07) 7 July 1963 (age 61)
Scheeßel, Germany
Political partyCDU (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations		The Greens (1997–2017)
Children3
Alma materHochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung
Websitewww.elke-twesten.de

Elke Twesten (born 7 July 1963 in Scheeßel) is a German politician for the CDU in Lower Saxony who switched parties from the Alliance 90/The Greens in 2017.

Career

Twesten previously worked in the Hamburg Customs Administration. She was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag in 2008.[1] Since 2013, she has been Secretary of the Landtag. She is also spokesperson for women in the parliament.[2]

Twesten defected to the CDU from the Greens in August 2017, thus depriving the Lower Saxony Parliament's SDP/Green coalition of its one-seat majority and triggering an early election in October 2017.[3]

Personal life

Twesten is married and has three daughters.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Elke Twesten hofft auf ein gutes Ergebnis der Grünen". Kreiszeitung (in German). 4 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Im Dialog: MdL Elke Twesten ruft Frauen zum Engagement in der Kommunalpolitik auf "Frauen gehen in die Politik, um etwas zu bewegen"". Kreiszeitung (in German). 6 March 2015.
  3. ^ Brechenmacher, Victor (4 August 2017). "German regional government brought down by lawmaker's defection". Politico. POLITICO SPRL. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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