Żaklin Nastić (born 29 January 1980 in Gdynia, Poland as Żaklin Jadwiga Sarah Grinholc) is a German politician who was elected for The Left. In October 2023 she switched to BSW. She has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.[1]
According to her statements, her family has Polish, German, Kashubian and Jewish roots. Nastić still has Polish citizenship in addition to German citizenship. She lives in Hamburg and, according to her own statements, has been divorced since 2022 and has two children.[3]
She rejects military support for Ukraine and spoke at a "No more weapons to Ukraine" rally in Berlin on 27 January 2023.
Politics and party
Żaklin Nastić with Gabriele Krone-Schmalz and Sahra Wagenknecht (Berlin, 2023) Nastić joined the Left Party in 2008. In 2011, she won a mandate in the Eimsbüttel district assembly and was a member until 2017. From 2016 to September 2022, she was her party's state spokesperson (equivalent to the state chair) in Hamburg.[4]
In 2017, she succeeded Inge Hannemann, who resigned for health reasons, in the Hamburg Parliament. In the 2017 german federal election, she received 10.4% of the vote as a direct candidate in the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel constituency. Since she won a mandate in the federal election via the state list, she resigned her mandate in the Hamburg Parliament.[5]
Nastić has been a member of the national executive of the Left Party since 2018 and was re-elected as the state spokesperson for the Left Party in Hamburg in October 2020.[6]
In the 19th German Bundestag, Nastić was a full Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid member and the human rights spokesperson for the Left Party faction. She is a deputy member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community, as well as the Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organisations and Globalisation. She is deputy chair of the German-Polish and German-Southeastern European parliamentary groups.[7]
In the 20th German Bundestag, the Left Party faction again appointed her as spokesperson for human rights; she is also an authorised representative on the Defence Committee.[8][9]
In October 2023, when the Association BSW – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW – For Reason and Justice) was founded, Nastić resigned from the Left Party along with nine other members of the Bundestag. In January 2024, she became a member of the newly founded BSW party, which emerged from the association.[10] Nastić is building the Wagenknecht party in Hamburg.[11][12][13]
In October 2024, Correctiv reported on the employment of Andreja Lovic as Nastić's employee. The latter, a ‘Serbian-German nationalist’, had, among other things, attended a conference by Alexander Dugin. Nastić had deleted the name of her employee from her website after a request from Correctiv and stated that his employment would end at the end of October 2024. However, she did not comment on the background when asked.[14]
References
^Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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