Social Democrats: SPD women want to eat as party leader or minister

Women in the SPD want to continue to have Saskia Esken as a party leader – or see them as a minister. “Of course it would be good, Saskia would remain our party leader. But of course she is also suitable and well prepared for a ministerial office,” said the chairwoman of the SPD women’s working group, Maria Noichl, the “Tagesspiegel”.

It should not be accepted that party leader Lars Klingbeil after the disaster “falls up and gets more offices” while his co-chair has to go. “Saskia Esken should and must continue to be there in the first row of the SPD,” said NOICHL.

Party congress with elections in June

Klingbeil and eat the party together. Klingbeil is expected to become Vice Chancellor in Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). However, the SPD only wants to name the names of its ministers after the membership vote has been completed by the coalition agreement, i.e. after Easter. At a party congress at the end of June, the entire SPD leadership is available. Esken also has many critics in the party. Most recently, there had also been demands for a change of generation and a realignment.

Esken is always available as chairwoman, emphasized NOICHL. Esken did a lot and, last but not least, was responsible for Olaf Scholz’s election in the 2021 Bundestag election. “She has great merits that we cannot crime her high enough,” emphasized NOICHL. Saxony-Anhalt’s SPD leader Juliane Kleemann also campaigned for Esken in the “Tagesspiegel”. “Saskia Esken is a good party leader and she took responsibility in the SPD in difficult times and held the shop together,” she emphasized.