1. Marlene Mortler is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and as a member of the German Parliament from 2002 to 2019.
14 Facts About Marlene Mortler
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Marlene Mortler served as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2019.
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In 1989, Marlene Mortler joined the CSU, and in 1996, she became a member of the Women's Union.
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From 1990 Marlene Mortler belonged to the district council of the district of Nurnberger Land.
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Since June 2009, Marlene Mortler has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CSU district association Middle Franconia, and in October 2011 she was elected as a member of the CSU Board under then chairman Horst Seehofer.
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Marlene Mortler was always elected as a directly elected representatives of the Roth constituency in the Bundestag.
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In late 2018, Marlene Mortler announced that she would run for a parliamentary seat in the 2019 European elections.
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Marlene Mortler was part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
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In December 2023, Marlene Mortler announced that she would not stand in the 2024 elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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From 1982 until 2004, Marlene Mortler served as chairwoman of the rural women in the district Nurnberger Land and belonged from 1992 to 2012 as a district of the farmer Farmers Union Central Franconia and second deputy country farmer to the Bureau of the Bavarian Farmers Association on.
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Marlene Mortler's initiative failed and nothing happened in this issue until April 2015.
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In 2018, Marlene Mortler criticized the portrayal of smoking in television and film programs that received public funds and urged the German film industry to produce fewer scenes involving cigarettes.
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Marlene Mortler was criticized for incompetence, an inappropriate qualification in "rural home economics" for the job, having a double standard and a preoccupation concerning suggestions about cannabis legalization.
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Marlene Mortler was married to her husband Siegfried Mortler from 1975 until his death in June 2017.