2024-06-10 11:16:03
As a result of there isn’t any 5 % hurdle within the European elections, small events can even enter parliament – a few of that are represented by well-known candidates.
Sibylle Berg – who has made a reputation for herself by means of books and columns – has been elected to the European Parliament for the satirical celebration “Die Partei”. The celebration obtained 1.9 % of the vote in Sunday’s election in Germany and thus has two representatives. Berg ran in second place, first place went to the satirist and writer Martin Sonneborn, who’s the celebration chairman and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014.
The 62-year-old has already reacted to her entry into the European Parliament on the platform X: “Thanks very a lot! The 2 of us will now put a benevolent finish to surveillance fascism. Any assistance is welcome,” she wrote in a publish for which she obtained a number of assist from her followers.
Sibylle Berg, who was born in Weimar and lives in Zurich, says she has printed a complete of 32 performs, 17 novels and varied columns. The Berliner Ensemble has carried out a number of of her performs, most lately two works that take care of the excesses of social injustice and the affect of digital applied sciences. A yr in the past, Berg complained on-line that she couldn’t discover an condominium in Zurich as a result of they had been too costly or as a result of writers weren’t taken on.