Editing Claudia Roth (section)

=== Member of the German Bundestag ===
[[file:Claudia roth.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Roth in 2005]]
Claudia Roth ended her work as an MEP when she became part of the [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] parliamentary group in the Bundestag after the [[1998 German federal election]]. She became a member of the Committee on the Affairs of the [[European Union]] and a substitute member of the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag. Furthermore, she was elected chairperson of the newly established [[Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid]].

On 9 March 2001, Roth was elected Federal chairperson of Alliance 90/The Greens at the party conference in [[Stuttgart]] and resigned as a Member of the Bundestag at the end of March 2001 as a result. At the same time, she was spokesperson of the Alliance 90/The Greens on women's affairs.

In the [[2002 German federal election|2002 national elections]], Roth was elected to the Bundestag as Bavarian lead candidate for Alliance 90/The Greens. Since then, she has been a member of the Bundestag's Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs. She is also cultural affairs spokesperson for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairperson of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Between March 2003 and October 2004, in Chancellor [[Gerhard Schröder]]'s second cabinet, Roth served as the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the [[Federal Foreign Office]].<ref>[http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/sid_3E309E94C6AE9A69CDC3697C2DB5044F/EN/AAmt/Koordinatoren/MR-Koordinator/Uebersicht-MRBeauftragter_node.html The Commissioner for Human Rights Policy] [[Foreign Office (Germany)]]</ref>

Roth became federal chairperson of Alliance 90/The Greens again in October 2004 and was re-elected as such several times, most recently in November 2010. In 2012, she failed to become the number-one woman in the campaign for the [[2013 German federal election|2013 national elections]]. After this defeat she was unsure to run again for the position of leader of the party's board. Fellow party member [[Volker Beck (politician)|Volker Beck]] started a support campaign in favour of her in social media networks and called it [[candystorm]]. The party members subsequently re-elected Roth with 88.5 percent backing.<ref>Erik Kirschbaum (17 November 2012), [https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-politics-greens-idUSL5E8MH3QW20121117 "German Greens avoid split by re-electing leftist"], ''[[Reuters]]''.</ref>

Roth served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Group between 2005 and 2009 and held the same office in the German-Turkish Friendship Group between 2005 and 2013.