Muhterem Aras (born 2 January 1966) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party.
[1] In the 2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, she won the Erstmandat ("first mandate") in the Stuttgart I constituency with 42.5% of the votes cast.
[2] She was a member of the Committees on Finance and Economic Affairs and of Culture, Youth and Sports and fiscal policy of the Green Party Group.
[4] On 11 May 2016, Aras was elected as the new Baden-Württemberg Landtag president with the votes of 96 MPs, becoming the first member of the Greens, the first Muslim, and the first woman, to hold the position.
[1] Aras was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Conventions for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.