After years of stagnation, the number of female lawmakers also has gone up again, including two transgender women. AdvertisementThe outgoing parliament had 8.2%, or 58, of 709 lawmakers with immigrant roots, and the 2013-17 parliament had only 5.9%, or 37 out of 631 lawmakers, according to Mediendienst Integration, an organization tracking migrant issues in Germany. Election rules mean that the number of lawmakers serving in Bundestag can change; the new one has 735 seats. More than a third, or 34.7%, of the new lawmakers are women, compared with 31.4% in the outgoing parliament, according to German news agency dpa. In the 2013-17 parliament, 37.3% of lawmakers were women.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 28, 2021 19:30 UTC