Elke Twesten

Elke Twesten
Elke Twesten
	Twesten in 2009
Member of the; Landtag of Lower Saxony
	In office; 26 February 2008 – 14 November 2017
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Alliance 90/The Greens List
Member of the; Rotenburg District Council
	In office; 1 November 2006 – 31 October 2021
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Alliance 90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born	Elke Twesten; 7 July 1963 (age 61); Scheeßel, Germany
Political party	CDU (2017–present)
Other political; affiliations	The Greens (1997–2017)
Children	3
Alma mater	Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung
Website	www.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

^ "Elke Twesten hofft auf ein gutes Ergebnis der Grünen". Kreiszeitung (in German). 4 July 2012.
^ "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.
^ Brechenmacher, Victor (4 August 2017). "German regional government brought down by lawmaker's defection". Politico. POLITICO SPRL. Retrieved 29 September 2017.

External links

Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 August 2017)
Alliance 90/The Greens - Elke Twesten (archived 28 July 2017) archive.is
Parliamentary profile

[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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