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What an honour! As from today, I am Minister for Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration and Equality in Schleswig-Holstein,\u201d the 29-year-old politician posted elatedly on her Facebook and Twitter pages on Wednesday.
\n\u201cSchleswig-Holstein is my home and to be able to take on political responsibility here is the greatest honour for me,\u201d she added<\/p>\n
Schleswig-Holstein is one of the 16 states of Germany and its capital city is Kiel.<\/p>\n
Tour\u00e9 is a member of the new CDU\/Green coalition government in Schleswig-Holtstein, led by the Christian Democrat Daniel G\u00fcnther as Minister President.<\/p>\n
The Afro-German politician was elected into the state parliament (Landtag) in 2017 and has repeatedly attracted national media attention with her speeches on migration and women issues.<\/p>\n
Tour\u00e9 had also made history on 28 August 2019 when she was elected the Vice-President of the state parliament, the first Black person to hold such a high position in the country.<\/p>\n
Tour\u00e9 was born and raised in Neum\u00fcnster, a town in Schleswig-Holstein. Her parents had fled Mali in 1991 in the aftermath of a military coup to seek political asylum in Germany. She studied Political Science and French Philology at the Christian Albrecht University, Kiel.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Tour\u00e9 became a member of the youth wing of the Green party in Kiel and was elected its spokesperson a year later. In 2016, she was elected into the executive committee of the party in Schleswig-Holstein. She held this office until the 2017 state election, when she stood as a candidate for her party in the Neum\u00fcnster state parliamentary constituency. It was that election that took the African politician into parliament through the party\u2019s list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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