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Nicolaus Fest | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 [1] [2] | |
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Born | Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany) | 1 July 1962
Political party | Alternative for Germany |
Constantin Nicolaus Johannes Joachim Fest (born 1 July 1962) is a German politician ( Alternative for Germany) and former journalist, who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament. [3]
Fest was deputy editor-in-chief of Bild am Sonntag of Springer SE. In 2014 he wrote a comment in which he called Islam an "obstacle to integration". Colleagues distanced themselves, the press council issued a reprimand and Fest left Springer Verlag. In 2016 he joined the AfD Berlin and stated he wanted to join the Bundestag some day. [4]
In 2019 he was elected as a member of the European Parliament.
After the death of the president of the European Parliament David Sassoli in 2022, Fest wrote: "Finally this bastard is gone" in a WhatsApp group of AfD MoP. [5]