For the first time in around 70 years, the South Schleswig Voters’ Association (SSW) is returning to the Bundestag with MP Seidler.
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Berlin A room. Your own room, that’s a start. Stefan Seidler has experienced different things since he was elected to the German Bundestag a good eight weeks ago. The 42-year-old from Flensburg has since been sitting in the hallways of Berlin with his laptop on his knees, hijacking empty meeting rooms until some delegation drove him away with the words, “That doesn’t work, we have the room now rented.”
Seidler is a lone fighter. He is not only the only member of the Bundestag of his party, the South Schleswig voters’ association, representing the Frisians and the Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the first ever in almost 70 years – from 1949 to 1953 there was already a SSW MP.
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