Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke (born 9 June 1951) is a German journalist and politician. Jelpke is a member of the German

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where she is domestic affairs spokesperson for the party Die Linke and represents the party in the internal affairs committee and the legal affairs committee.Biography on Bundestag homepage
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and

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, Jelpke later acquired a high school diploma and studied

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and

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. From 2002 until 2005 she headed the domestic affairs desk at the newspaper ''

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'' in Berlin. Since 2003 she has been co-editor of the magazine '' Ossietzky''. Jelpke was a member of the Hamburg Bürgerschaft for the Green-Alternative List twice between 1981 and 1989. Starting from 1990, she has been a member of the 12th–14th, 16th and 17th German Bundestags respectively. In November 2020, Jelpke announced that she would not seek reelection in the

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.Neues Deutschland-Aktuell.de: Nach fast 30 Jahren im Bundestag tritt Ulla Jelpke nicht wieder an.
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