Candidates for SPD chairmanship are known
For the membership decision on the SPD party presidency of the electoral board has eight couples and the member of the Bundestag Karl-Heinz Brunner admitted as a single applicant. Acting party leader Manuela Schwesig announced today in Berlin that there will be eight teams and one individual candidate.
The most prominent candidate is the German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who competes with the former Brandenburg member of parliament Klara Geywitz. As of September 4, all 17 candidates will be present at 23 regional events of the base. The membership decision should take place in the second half of October. Formally, the new party leadership will be elected at a federal party convention in early December.
For the succession of the party leader Andrea Nahles, who stepped down in June, teams can compete as a double top, but also individual candidates. They had to prove the nomination by a national association, a district or five subdistricts in order to be admitted.
Bohemian man not allowed
The satirist Jan Böhmermann, who had started an application at short notice, had not been admitted. For the candidacy it was „just barely enough,“ then confirmed Böhmermann on Youtube. Even if it should not work in the original election for the party presidency with a candidacy for him, at the latest in the spring of 2020, the SPD will seek a new party leader, a new dual leadership, said Böhmermann in the video. „Then my team and I are even better prepared and have an even longer lead. Then it will work. „
