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Simone Oldenburg

Simone Oldenburg

German politician

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  • Jul 10

    German student's 'f**k you' graduation speech goes viral after 34% of her class fails final exams

    At a high school in Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 17 of 52 students failed the Abitur. One of them, Ellenor Bockentin, 18, used her graduation speech to denounce two years of missing maths instruction and what she called retaliatory grading, ending with 'Fickt euch einfach nur alle!'

  • Jun 13

    Schwesig secures 98.9% SPD nomination as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern braces for September election

    SPD delegates in Wismar gave Manuela Schwesig a near-unanimous vote of confidence on Saturday. The incumbent minister-president now faces an AfD that leads by 9 points in polls, 14 weeks before election day.

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