The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken would like to remain at the top of the SPD for another term. She told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” that she had “decided to renew my application for the highest office in the party.”
SPD leader Saskia Esken wants to apply for another term. You have decided to “renew my application for the highest office in the party,” she told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”. Your goal is to continue on the path you have chosen with the previous co-party leader Norbert Walter-Borjans – even if he does not start again.
The 60-year-old was last under pressure after Norbert Walter-Borjans, who forms a double top with her, announced his retirement a week ago. Even before the general election, she herself showed interest in another term as party leader. Alternatively, there was speculation about a possible ministerial office for Esken in the traffic light coalition sought by the SPD with the Greens and the FDP.
The SPD had also made it clear that the current separation of government and party leadership should remain – as was the case with the dual leadership of a woman and a man. The current general secretary Lars Klingbeil is likely to take over as the new co-party leader. However, he has not yet officially commented on a candidacy.
“Lars Klingbeil would be an excellent choice as party chairman,” said the previous Federal Labor Minister and party vice-president Hubertus Heil of the “Rheinische Post”. He expressed himself confidently “that we will again succeed in setting up the party leadership as a powerful team that bundles competencies in order to meet the demands of the SPD as a people’s party”.
The new SPD leadership will be elected in mid-December
Regarding his own ambitions, Heil said: “I will run again as deputy party chairman of the SPD and I am grateful that my district has nominated me for it.” The new party leadership is to be elected at a party congress from December 10th to 12th in Berlin.
Walter-Borjans called on the SPD to adhere to its current course and the most recently practiced dealings with one another, even under new leadership. “We have to take our own success story seriously. It has to do not only with a candidate and two chairpersons, but with the willingness that everyone withdraws from time to time,” he told the editorial network Germany (RND).
The outgoing SPD leader referred to a new “much more open and respectful” debate culture in the party and emphasized: “Alpha animal behavior is an obsolete model. It should stay that way.” Looking at Klingbeil and Esken, he said: “Saskia Esken and I have worked closely with Lars Klingbeil.”
Walter-Borjans justified his retirement with the aim of a generation change, among other things. He is 69 years old, Esken 60 and Klingbeil 43 years old. Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has made it clear that he does not want to become party chairman.
Source From: Stern
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