| Melis Sekmen | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg |
| Term Start: | 26 October 2021 |
| Party: | Alliance 90/The Greens (until July 2024) CDU (since July 2024) |
| Birth Date: | 1993 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Mannheim, Germany |
Melis Sekmen (born 26 September 1993) is a German politician. She is a member of the German Bundestag from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She previously was a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She is of Turkish descent.[1]
In the Bundestag, Sekmen serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to her committee assignments, she has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[2]
Elected as a Green in 2021, she resigned from her former party and its Bundestag fraction on 1 July 2024, intending to apply for membership in the CDU and the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group. Sekmen said, "My idea of how and in what style politics is done has evolved."[3] Sekmen's differences of opinion with the Green Party's majority line had recently become apparent primarily in the areas of migration and the economy; for example, she had called for a "change of course" in migration and integration policy. She also cited her recognition of the Union's new basic program as a reason for the switch.[4] [5] On 9 July, Sekmen was admitted to the CDU.[6] She is thus the first Green member of the Bundestag to switch to the Union parties since Vera Lengsfeld in 1996,[7] and the third CDU member of Turkish origin after Cemile Giousouf and Serap Güler.