The meeting of around 600 delegates is largely digital due to the corona. The previous party leader, Saskia Esken, and the previous general secretary, Lars Klingbeil, will take the chair.
Boldly proposed as Secretary General
Former Juso boss and current SPD vice-president Kevin Kühnert has been proposed as the new general secretary. “We want to develop the SPD into the most powerful member party with the most modern party organization by 2025,” said the lead proposal entitled “Perspective 2030”, which the federal executive board introduced. The decline in close party ties and the willingness of voters to switch is a “great opportunity and challenge” for the SPD: “We have the opportunity to maintain and expand the support for social democratic content and the SPD,” it says.
Commitment to the “Chancellor’s Party”
In the draft, the SPD expressly acknowledges its responsibility as the “Chancellor’s Party”. “The role of the party that provides the Federal Chancellor also gives rise to a special responsibility.” In view of the dramatic restructuring of the economy and society towards a climate-neutral country, it is the special task of the SPD to “strengthen cohesion in a diverse society”. Germany is an immigration society, which is why integration must be promoted, exclusion rejected and real participation in education, work and society ensured.
The EU forms the central part of international cooperation and has “taken a path of cohesion and solidarity” in the corona pandemic, it says with reference to the multi-billion dollar reconstruction fund. This path must be continued. “At the same time, we must not accept that populist and nationalist governments curtail the independence of the judiciary and fundamental rights,” he stressed with reference to the conflicts with Hungary and Poland.
Source: Nachrichten
