Kerstin Radomski

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{{short description|German politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Kerstin Radomski

| office = Member of the Bundestag for Krefeld II – Wesel II

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| caption = Kerstin Radomski in 2014

| term_start = 2013

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1974|11|1}}

| birth_place = Hüls, West Germany
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| party = CDU

| nationality = German

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| alma_mater = Ruhr University Bochum

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Kerstin Christiane Radomski (born 1 November 1974) is a German teacher and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.

Political career

Since 2005, Radomski has been part of the CDU’s leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia, under successive chairmen Jürgen Rüttgers (2005–2010), Norbert Röttgen (2010–2012), Armin Laschet (2012–2021) and Hendrik Wüst (since 2021).Jens Voss (27 September 2021), [https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/krefeld/krefelder-cdu-kandidatin-radomski-zieht-ueber-liste-in-den-bundestag-ein_aid-63135857 Bundestagswahl: CDU-Kandidatin Radomski zieht über Liste in den Bundestag ein] Rheinische Post.

Radomski became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Krefeld II – Wesel II district.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/kerstin-radomski|title=Kerstin Radomski|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=22 March 2020}} She is a member of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a08|title=German Bundestag – Budget|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=22 March 2020}} In this capacity, she serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2022, she has also been part of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw07-de-wahl-gremien-879542 Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt] Bundestag, press release of 17 February 2022.

From 2013 to 2017 and again since 2022,[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw11-pa-nachhaltigkeit-884160 Helmut Kleebank leitet den Beirat für nachhaltige Entwicklung] Bundestag, press release of 16 March 2022. Radomski has also been a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. In addition to her committee assignments, she was part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2005 to 2018.

Other activities

  • Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW), Member

Political positions

In June 2017, Radomski voted against Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.[https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article166099805/Diese-Unionsabgeordneten-stimmten-fuer-die-Ehe-fuer-alle.html "Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle"] Die Welt, 30 June 2017.

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