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Patricia Lips
Patricia Lips in 2020
Member of the Bundestag for Odenwald
Incumbent
Assumed office
2002
Preceded byErika Ober
Personal details
Born (1963-12-21) 21 December 1963 (age 60)
Milan, Italy
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Patricia Lips (born 21 December 1963) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for Odenwald in the state of Hesse since 2002.

Political career

Lips first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2002 German federal election.[1] She served on the Finance Committee from 2004 until 2013 and later chaired the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment from 2014 until 2017.

Following the 2018 elections, Lips became a member of the Budget Committee[2] and of its so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium), which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

Since March 2020, Lips has been managing the campaign of Friedrich Merz in the 2021 CDU leadership election.

Political positions

In June 2017, Lips voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Patricia Lips". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
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