A new state parliament will be elected in North Rhine-Westphalia in May. Now the CDU and SPD have chosen their top candidates.
Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst has been elected the top candidate of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU for the state elections on May 15 with a large majority.
At a meeting in Essen, the delegates elected the CDU state chairman with 99.1 percent of the 235 valid votes in first place on the state list. Accordingly, there were 233 yes and two no votes. The 46-year-old did not have an opponent. The Secretary General of the NRW-CDU, Josef Hovenjürgen, said: “That should be tailwind for May 15th.” Wüst has achieved the best result of a top candidate of the NRW-CDU since at least the year 2000.
The state list draws if a party is entitled to more seats in the state parliament than it has won direct mandates or if a member of the state parliament resigns and a successor can therefore move into parliament. In several previous state elections, the list hardly played a role for the NRW-CDU. In the 2017 NRW state elections, the CDU won all of its 72 mandates directly in the constituencies.
The North Rhine-Westphalian SPD nominated its chairman and parliamentary group leader Thomas Kutschaty as the top candidate. At a digital state party conference, the 53-year-old former state justice minister received 432 of 446 votes cast. Nine delegates voted no and five abstained. This corresponds to a result of 96.86 percent. “It’s a dream result,” said Kuchaty. “Now I’m hot too, now I want to campaign with you to convince people in North Rhine-Westphalia.”
Kuschaty, who is also deputy SPD federal chairman, had previously promised a social restart for NRW in his speech. A black-yellow coalition has governed NRW since 2017. According to surveys, the CDU and SPD are roughly equal in NRW.
Source: Stern
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