At some point, Karamba Diaby had simply had enough. A month ago, the politician of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) posted hate messages he and his staff had been receiving on his Instagram account. He said that death threats had "crossed a line."

Four weeks later, Diaby announced that he was resigning from federal politics and would not be running in the next election for Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in 2025.

In an interview with DW, Diaby emphasized that his reasons for doing so were primarily personal, not political.

"This is a personal decision that has been made with my family," he said. "And that outweighs the reasons why I made this decision. It should also be noted that I will be 64 years old by the end of this term, and I think this is the right time to try something new and, above all, to give younger people the opportunity to take on responsibility."

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Eleven years ago, Karamba Diaby became the first black African-born person to enter the Bundestag, and in 2021 he was even the SPD's top candidate in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Born in Senegal, Diaby came to former East Germany to study.

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