Overview

• The Left announced that Gerhard Trabert will not assume his Bundestag seat for health reasons.
• His family said he suffered multiple severe strokes, spent months in rehabilitation, is returning home, and continues to face serious limitations.
• Lin Lindner, 31, is set to enter the Bundestag in Trabert’s place, with party leaders presenting Lindner as a strong voice against poverty and discrimination.
• Co-chairs Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken thanked Trabert, calling the “Arzt der Armen” a moral and professional authority who would have been a strong advocate for equitable health care.
• Trabert never took up the seat after the election and is known as a non-partisan social physician who ran as The Left’s 2022 presidential candidate and has long worked on homelessness and refugee aid.