GERMAN parliament or Bundestag welcomed its first deaf lawmaker on March 21 in what was described as a historic moment by the house speaker. According...
parliament or Bundestag welcomed its first deaf lawmaker on March 21 in what was described as a historic moment by the house speaker.yesterday, Heike Heubach, 44, joined the parliament this week as a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party.
“Today we are actually writing history, if I may say so. We have the first deaf lawmaker who will work here for her constituency,“ parliament speaker Bärbel Bas was quoted as saying. Additionally, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur sign language interpreters were placed closely to Heubach to help her understand and communicate, by translating what fellow lawmakers say during parliamentary sittings.
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