Isabelle Vandre (born 27 July 1989) is a German politician from

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. She was a member of the

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from 2014 to 2024 and was elected to the 21st Bundestag in the

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via the Brandenburg

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Leben

Isabelle Vandre graduated from high school in 2009. She then studied

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at the

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, where she received her bachelor's degree in 2018. During her studies, she was a member of the Free University's from 2011 to 2012 and a member of the Department of Political and Social Sciences from 2011 to 2013. Vandre has been a board member of the

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sports club since 2019. She is also a member of the Education and Science Workers' Union, the Berlin Brandenburg Education Partisans, the Education Institute for Politics and Culture, the Rote Hilfe e.V., the , the Women's Summer Academy and the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists.

Political career

Party politics

She is a member of the Left Youth Solid and has been a member of the Left Party since 2011. In the Brandenburg state association of Linksjugend solid, she was a member of the state spokesperson's council. Vandre was a member of the district executive committee of the

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district association of the Left Party from 2014 to 2019 and deputy state chairwoman of The Left Party Brandenburg from 2018 to 2020.

Local politics

Vandre has been a member of the since 2019, where she is the parliamentary group leader of the Left Party, as well as a member of the Main Committee and the Committee on Health, Social Affairs, Housing and Inclusion.

State politics

In the

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, she won a mandate via her party's state list. She was a member of the Committee for Science, Research and Culture, as well as spokesperson for higher education, science and research policy for her parliamentary group. Since 2015, she has also been a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. She was a deputy member of the Brandenburg NSU investigative committee for her parliamentary group. She campaigned against the tightening of Brandenburg's police law and voted against the reform, despite the majority of her parliamentary group in the state parliament. In the 2024 Brandenburg state election, The Left Party were wiped out losing all their seats. Vandre thus left the state parliament.

Federal politics

Vandre ran as a direct candidate in the

in the Potsdam – Potsdam-Mittelmark II – Teltow-Fläming II constituency. She received 13.8 percent of the

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s. She nevertheless entered the Bundestag via the Brandenburg

. Since the reconstitution of the Left Party parliamentary fraktion in the Bundestag on February 25, 2025, she has been a member of it.

References

External links

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Homepage von Isabelle Vandre
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vandre, Isabelle Living people 1989 births Free University of Berlin alumni Die Linke politicians Members of the Landtag of Brandenburg Members of the Bundestag for Brandenburg 21st-century German women politicians Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029 Female members of the Bundestag Members of the Bundestag for Die Linke