Mohamed Ali has been a board member of the Oldenburg/Ammerland district association of the party Die Linke in
Lower Saxony since 2015. She ran for political office for the first time in the 2016 local elections on list number 2 in electoral district VI of the city of Oldenburg. In this election, the Left Party achieved its best result in a local election since its foundation. Mohamed Ali ran as a direct candidate for the
Oldenburg-Ammerland constituency in the
2017 federal election. She was elected number 5 on her party's Lower Saxony state list and was elected to the Bundestag through that list. In the 19th Bundestag, she is a member of the Committee for Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Committee for Food and Agriculture. She was spokesperson for
consumer protection and for animal protection of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag. On 12 November 2019, she was elected as
Sahra Wagenknecht's successor–alongside Dietmar Bartsch–as co-chair of the parliamentary group. Mohamed Ali won in a competitive vote against
Caren Lay, 36 votes to 29. In 2023, the dispute between left-wing populist and conservative
Sarah Wagenknecht and the party leadership came to a head. As a result, Wagenknecht put forward the prospect of founding her own party. In August 2023, Mohamed Ali, who currently belongs to the Wagenknecht Group, announced that she would be stepping back from co-chair of the parliamentary group because of the dispute. She said that it was difficult for her to represent the course of the party board in the Bundestag.
Founding a new party and leaving The Left Mohamed Ali was involved in the founding of
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), a registered association with the goal of founding a new political party in Germany. Mohamed Ali serves as the chairperson of the organization. At a press conference on 23 October 2023, which announced BSW to the public, she announced that she had left
The Left party.
Political positions In December 2024, the
Bundestag decided to better protect the
Federal Constitutional Court against political attacks. For this purpose, the structure (16 judges and two senates) was incorporated into the
basic law. All parties (
CDU/CSU, FDP,
A90/Greens, SPD,
The Left) voted for the proposed action, except for the right-wing
AfD and the BSW. Mohamed Ali described the inclusion of the Bundeverfassungsgericht in the basic law, which can only be changed with a 2/3 majority, as "undemocratic" and "arrogance of those in power". == References ==