As SPD Interior Minister, she heads a key federal government department. But what happens after the 2025 federal election? The SPD poll numbers are modest. Nancy Faeser has new plans.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to go to the Bundestag. The Social Democrat would like to run for the federal election in September 2025, as the German Press Agency learned from circles in the Hesse SPD. Faeser wants to be nominated as a candidate at her party’s constituency delegate conference on November 30th in Kelkheim im Taunus. The Hesse-wide SPD list for the federal election will not be drawn up until June 2025.
“We hope that she gets a top spot,” it was said in Faeser’s SPD sub-district Main-Taunus. The 54-year-old Federal Minister of the Interior currently does not have a mandate in the Bundestag. The SPD is suffering from poor poll numbers – it is considered uncertain that Faeser will retain her ministerial office after the federal election in just under a year.
Election defeat in Hesse
The lawyer lives with her family in Schwalbach am Taunus. Faeser was a member of the Hessian parliament in Wiesbaden for many years. In the state elections in October 2023, she achieved a disastrous election result as the SPD’s top candidate in Hesse – and remained Federal Minister of the Interior instead of becoming Prime Minister of her home state as she had hoped. The head of government of Hesse is now Boris Rhein from the CDU. He governs with the SPD.
Source: Stern
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