Investigations against SPD top candidate Steffen Krach: “I’m fine”

According to his own words, SPD leading candidate Steffen Krach is doing well despite the investigations against him. “I went into politics and I know how politics works,” Krach told dpa on the sidelines of an election campaign event in the Bornholm I allotment garden in Pankow. "I'm particularly concerned about protecting my wife and children, and I subordinate everything to that."

He and his wife try to prevent their older children from reading all the newspaper articles that appear about noise. “We are trying to achieve the greatest possible normality, which is not easy.” It is now also a matter of his lawyer and him being able to access the files. Krach emphasized again that the allegations were not true.

According to his own statements, Krach is accused by the Hanover public prosecutor of having requested a party donation twice. In addition, during his time as president of the Hanover region, he is said to have improperly passed on business secrets in a process to sell a property. The presumption of innocence applies.

In addition to Krach, the event was also attended by the top candidate of the Left, Elif Eralp, and the top candidate of the Green Party, Werner Graf, as well as Danny Freymark (CDU), a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. Among other things, they discussed transport policy and plans for Tempelhofer Feld.