Sofia Leonidakis

Leonidakis attended school in Kassel until 2002 and earned a high school diploma in design. She was in India in 2002 for a stay abroad. There she assisted in social work with so-called temple prostitutes.

From 2003 to 2011 she studied political management (B.A.) and European and World Politics (M.A.) at the City University of Applied Sciences Bremen and Istanbul. Until 2015, Leonidakis was a research assistant at the parliamentary group Die Linke. In 2013/2014 she attended a guest semester at the Bremen University of the Arts.[1]

Leonidakis is married and has one child.

In 2015 Leonidakis got elected to Bremen Bürgerschaft for the first time. She is the spokesperson for the Left Party for "Migration, Social Affairs and Children".

She initiated the project "Housing First" in Bremen, which is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward.[2]

Due to the growing conflicts within the Left Party, politician Sarah Wagenknecht prepared in 2023 for month to create an own party. End of September, 2023 people from Wagenknecht's circle founded the association "BSW – For Reason and Justice e. V.", intended to serve as a precursor to a future party. In mid-October Leonidakis initated submitted an application for Wagenknecht's exclusion from the party, supported by over 50 members of the Left. The initiators said they wanted to prevent Wagenknecht from building a new party with the resources of the Left. This is no longer acceptable, says Leonidakis, leader of the Left in the Bremen parliament.[3]