German media reports that Mehriyeh Ashofteh, an Afghan-German woman, has successfully entered the Hamburg State Parliament.
The reports indicate that she was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in the Hamburg parliamentary elections, and Mehriyeh Ashofteh has succeeded in securing a seat in the Hamburg State Parliament from this constituency.
It is further stated that Ms. Ashofteh gained over 9,000 votes, enabling her entry into the Hamburg State Parliament.
Media reports have noted that these elections were held on Sunday, March 3rd.
Additionally, Mehriyeh Ashofteh expressed in a message on her Instagram account that her close friends were aware of her success in entering the parliament beforehand, but she personally refrained from making any predictions throughout the day.
This Afghan-German political activist emphasized that she has achieved her goal of raising awareness and instilling hope in the hearts of the people.
During her election campaign, she promised that her objective was to amplify the voices of Afghan migrants in Germany.
It should be noted that Mehriyeh Ashofteh is a defense attorney and a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg.
She was born in Kabul and moved to this well-known city in Germany with her parents when she was just one year old.
She is the second Afghan woman to enter the Hamburg State Parliament. Over the past four years, Zahra Majidi, another woman from Afghanistan, served in this state parliament.
While Mehriyeh Ashofteh makes her way into the Hamburg State Parliament, the caretaker government, following its takeover of Afghanistan, has prohibited girls above the sixth grade from attending school and subsequently closed universities to girls as well. In a recent move, they have also banned girls from studying in medical institutes, thus completely depriving them of access to formal education.
In addition, women and girls have been barred from going to sports clubs, restaurants, public baths, being examined by male doctors, traveling without a male guardian, and working in domestic and international NGOs, as well as even at UN offices in Afghanistan.
