According to party circles, Labor Minister Bärbel BAS should also become new co-chair of the Social Democrats. It should be nominated by the SPD board and replaced at the party leadership of Saskia Esken, said with the personnel to report confidants on Monday as several media report.
According to Tagesspiegel information, the 33-year-old member of the Bundestag Tim Klüssendorf, who is to become the new SPD general secretary, is at the committees of the SPD. The party link is to take over the successor to Matthias Miersch, who was elected group leader. The confirmed party circles of the Reuters news agency.
Klüssendorf belongs to the parliamentary left, whose spokesman he has also been since 2024. He comes from Lübeck and represents the city in the Bundestag.
For the morning, the SPD invited to a press conference in the Willy-Brandt-Haus, the party headquarters in Berlin, at short notice. It can be expected that BAS and Klüssendorf will then be presented as candidates. The SPD will choose its new tour at a party congress at the end of June.
BAS has been acted as CO chairwoman for some time
The fact that it goes out on BAS as a co-chair has been emerging for a long time. But the withdrawal from Saskia Esken was still pending. She took him on Sunday evening, now the SPD creates facts.
BAS thus becomes a strong woman alongside party leader Lars Klingbeil. She too is a member of the cabinet, namely fresh as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. In the past legislative period, she was President of the Bundestag and has worked out a lot of reputation in this office.
The two prime ministers Manuela Schwesig (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) and Anke Rehlinger (Saarland) were also traded as candidates for the party chair. However, for various reasons, they had declared that they were not available. (with agencies)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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