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New head of anti-discrimination agency elected in Germany

Publicist Ferda Ataman, right, speaks after her election as Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner together with Lisa Paus, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the German Bundestag in Berlin, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Ataman, 42, was elected with a clear majority of the votes. She had been nominated by the government for the post, but members of the Free Democrats, who are part of the governing coalition, as well as lawmakers with the oppositional conservative Christian Democrats and the far-right Alternative for Germany had sharply criticized the appointment. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP) Publicist Ferda Ataman accepts the applause of the government factions on the visitors' gallery in the German Bundestag after her election as Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner in Berlin, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Ataman, 42, was elected with a clear majority of the votes. She had been nominated by the government for the post, but members of the Free Democrats, who are part of the governing coalition, as well as lawmakers with the oppositional conservative Christian Democrats and the far-right Alternative for Germany had sharply criticized the appointment. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP) Publicist Ferda Ataman, top right, accepts the applause of the government factions on the visitors' gallery in the German Bundestag after her election as Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner in Berlin, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Ataman, 42, was elected with a clear majority of the votes. She had been nominated by the government for the post, but members of the Free Democrats, who are part of the governing coalition, as well as lawmakers with the oppositional conservative Christian Democrats and the far-right Alternative for Germany had sharply criticized the appointment. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP) Publicist Ferda Ataman speaks after her election as head of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Ataman, 42, was elected with a clear majority of the votes. She had been nominated by the government for the post, but members of the Free Democrats, who are part of the governing coalition, as well as lawmakers with the oppositional conservative Christian Democrats and the far-right Alternative for Germany had sharply criticized the appointment. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)
New head of anti-discrimination agency elected in Germany