Party: SPD elects new leadership at special party conference in mid-January

Lars Klingbeil wants to compete again and hold on to a dual leadership. So far it is unclear who else could run. Only one popular SPD man has already canceled.

Berlin. The SPD will hold its special party conference in Bremen on January 16th and 17th. “The entire party executive committee will be re-elected at this party conference and all other elections will also be held,” several media outlets reported unanimously.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil proposed this special party conference on Monday after Bärbel Bas resigned as Labor Minister and SPD co-leader. In this context, Klingbeil had announced that he would then stand for election himself.

Originally, only a party convention was planned around the turn of the year, i.e. a meeting without elections. Klingbeil also said on Monday that he wanted to stick to the principle of dual leadership. He did not say who he would run with.

The most popular SPD politician in polls, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, has already made it clear that he has no ambitions to become party chairman. Manuela Schwesig is still considered a promising candidate, but she campaigned in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with an anti-federal government stance.

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