Jessica Tatti

Jessica Tatti
Jessica Tatti
	Jessica Tatti in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 October 2017
Personal details
Born	22 April 1981 (age 43); Marbach am Neckar, West Germany; (now Germany)
Citizenship	Germany
Political party	Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023)
Other political; affiliations	The Left (until 2023)

Jessica Tatti (born 22 April 1981) is a German politician (BSW, former The Left). Born in Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, she represents Wagenknecht-party and serves as its Group Chief Whip in the German Bundestag. She switched party from The Left in October 2023 to "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht".

Jessica Tatti has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017.^[1]

Life

She is of Italian descent. Her grandparents hail from Sardinia.^[2] Tatti studied social work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg and was employed in the corresponding professional field after her bachelor's degree: In 2010, she moved to Reutlingen and initially worked in urban youth work; before her parliamentary mandate in the German Bundestag, she most recently worked in social services in refugee care for the Esslingen district association of Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO). She became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.^[3] She is a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.^[4]

In October 2023 she declared that she would quit Die Linke and follow Sahra Wagenknecht into her new party. Tatti rejected the demand to resign from the Bundestag mandate she had won through Die Linke.^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Jessica Tatti | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ Kurz, Ushi. "Arbeit, Wohnen, Integration". www.tagblatt.de. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ "German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
^ GmbH, Klarner Medien. "Jessica Tatti zum Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht | RTF.1". RTF.1 - Regionalfernsehen. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
^ "Wagenknecht und ihr Erbe: Die Linke verschiebt ihre Insolvenz". www.fr.de (in German). 8 November 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.