The SPD chairman Saskia Esken wants to withdraw from her office and therefore from the first row of politics. In the past few weeks there had been violent criticism of the 63-year-old, who had won only 12.9 percent of the first vote in her constituency Calw as a direct candidate.
This rejection accompanies her since she announced her candidacy for the party presidency, she explained in the “Berlin report”. From her point of view, she has a lot to do with the fact that “she opened her mouth” like a left and somewhat fearless fear -frees -Vree -Vrouw “when it became unjust. “Maybe that doesn’t fit something.” She was able to look back with great satisfaction at the party leadership at the age of six and therefore make room now.
During the SPD Federal Party Conference at the end of June, she will no longer compete for re-election, said the 63-year-old in the evening in the ARD program “Report Van Berlin”. Esken, however, announced that she would keep her mandate in the Bundestag in which she has been since 2013.
Esken wants to make room for young women
“In the past six years I have had great joy and great honor to keep the SPD as a party leader, a time and a conventional party at the same time,” the politician said. “I now give up my party chairman and make room for the renewal.” Esken emphasized that the decision had grown up in recent days and weeks. She mainly wanted to make room for young women in the SPD.
Esken was chosen directly by the members in 2019, at that time initially in the duo with Norbert Walter-Borjans. In the following years she made an important contribution to stabilizing the SPD. After 2021 she reliably supported Chancellor Olaf Scholz, although she did not always agree with him.
She recently played the coalition agreement with the CDU and CSU next to the co-chairman Klingbeil. However, in the distribution of ministerial posts in the Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) cabinet it went as empty as the occupation of the important items in the SPD parliamentary group.
Source: Krone
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