Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’Posted in Articles, Europe, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy on 2013-09-24 02:16Z by Steven |
Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’
The Telegraph
2013-09-23
Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Berlin—Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday’s general election to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics…
…Mr Huber, 56, is a well-known television actor, having featured for years in a popular peak-time detective series, Der Alte (The Old Man). A nephew of a former president of Senegal, Mr Huber, whose mother is German, played the character of a police superintendent Henry Johnson between 1986 and 1997. …
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