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In 1984, Nickels became one of six Green Party women – alongside Annemarie Borgmann, Waltraud Schoppe, Heidemarie Dann and Erika Hickel – who took over the leadership of her party's parliamentary group, displacing better-known Green figures like Petra Kelly and Otto Schily.[3]
When, on 18 October 1984, President of the BundestagRichard Stücklen excluded Green Party MP Jürgen Reents from the session for calling Helmut Kohl "bought by Flick", Nickels requested an interruption. Stücklen turned her microphone off, which prompted Joschka Fischer to address him, "With respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole", for which he in turn was excluded by Stücklen. Fischer apologized to Stücklen two days later.[4]
Nickels chaired the Committee on Petitions from 1994 to 1998 and the Committee on Human Right and Humanitarian Aid from 2001 to 2005.
