Tarek Mohammed Al-Wazir is a politician in the German Green Party.
10 Facts About Tarek Al-Wazir
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Tarek Al-Wazir is a member of the Landtag of Hesse and was co-chair of the Hessian Green Party.
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Tarek Al-Wazir's parents divorced while he was a child, and he spent several years of his youth in the Yemeni capital with his father, an experience he later described as very influential in his personal development.
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Tarek Al-Wazir joined the German Green Party in 1989, and has been a member ever since.
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Tarek Al-Wazir has been a member of the Landtag since 1995 and is co-chair of the Hessian Green Party.
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Tarek Al-Wazir was the leader of the Greens during the Hesse state election of 2008, and as such was the Green candidate for the position of Minister-President of Hesse.
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Surveys showed Tarek Al-Wazir to be Hesse's most popular politician at the time of the vote.
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On 18 January 2014, after the 2013 state elections, Tarek Al-Wazir became Deputy of the Hessian Minister-President Volker Bouffier and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development in a Black-Green coalition.
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Tarek Al-Wazir was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for electing the president of Germany in 2017.
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Tarek Al-Wazir is married to a Yemeni woman, with whom he has two sons.