First African-Born Member of German Parliament Won’t Seek Re-election

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First ********-Born Member of ******* Parliament Won’t Seek Re-election

Germany’s first ********-born member of Parliament said this week that he would not seek office again in next year’s general elections. Although he played down racism as a factor, he made the announcement a short time after his staff released the contents of a slew of hate mail and ****** threats that his office had received.

The lawmaker, Karamba Diaby, a 62-year-old Senegal native first elected in 2013, said in a letter written to his colleagues that he wanted to make way for a new generation of politicians and that racism was “not the main reason” for his decision. But he has been outspoken about the ****** he has experienced, which has markedly increased in volume and tenor in recent years.

Bullets were

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of his district office in 2020, and the office was

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last year.

“I can’t wipe all this away,” Mr. Diaby was reported as saying in an interview, according to the Funke Media Group, a major ******* newspaper and magazine publisher. “These are not small things.”

The election over a decade ago of Mr. Diaby, who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and emigrated to East Germany in 1985, was at the time hailed as a major win for equality. Mr. Diaby, who belongs to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats party, cited a ******* to spend more time with family as a main reason for his departure.

Yet the far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, has been far outpolling his center-left party in his constituency.

Mr. Diaby has blamed the rising AfD, whose populist platform won them second place in Germany in the recent ********* Union elections, for the spike in racism and threats.

“In the last few years, I’ve faced several ******* threats,” he said in a

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this week. “This has now overstepped the mark.”

“The hatred that the AfD sows every day with its misanthropic narratives is reflected in concrete psychological and physical *********,” he added. “This endangers the cohesion of our society. We cannot simply accept this.”

The city of Halle, which Mr. Diaby represents, is in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the eastern states where the nationalist and anti-immigrant AfD dominates.

Just last year, Mr. Diaby struck a very different tone against those who had threatened him.

“Over 42,000 people in Halle voted for me,” he said in an

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. “Quitting would mean giving their votes less weight than those of a hateful *********.”

“I would never allow that to happen,” he added.

Christopher F. Schuetze contributed reporting.

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