The SPD is desperately looking for a new board, many potential candidates reject an application. Now, the satirist Jan Böhmermann announced in his show "Neo Magazine Royale" to want to become SPD chief. Willy Brandt had appeared to him in a dream and had told him: "You have to do it, the Olaf (Scholz) is a pipe."
There could be legal difficulties, he said. But: "I, Jan Böhmermann, would like to become chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany." To the address of the party members said the entertainer: "I'm ready to save the SPD, if you help me with it."
His campaign has the hashtag "# newstart19", the website has the name neustart19.de. However, he still has three challenges to overcome, writes the 38-year-old on the website: "1. Formally, the candidacy for the party presidency must be submitted by Sunday at 18 clock 2. Until then, I need the support of five SPD subdistricts, one District or a national association 3. I need until then a valid membership in the SPD. "
"We only have 70 hours left now"
"If the Social Democratic Party of Germany really is the efficient democracy machine for which I hold it, then it must be possible to complete the formalities for my candidacy within three days," wrote Böhmermann on his campaign website. In the ZDFneo program, he was a bit more reserved: "I do not know if it works, we only have 70 hours left," he told his studio guest Aurel Mertz.
The application deadline for the successor of Andrea Nahles as party leader expires this Sunday. So far, the electoral board of the SPD has recognized, according to a party spokesman in five candidates duo the necessary support: Scholz and the Brandenburg Member of Parliament Klara Geywitz; Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius and Saxony's Minister of Integration Petra Köpping; European Minister of State Michael Roth and the former North Rhine-Westphalian Family Minister Christina Kampmann; the two Bundestag members Karl Lauterbach and Nina Scheer; as well as the member of the Bundestag Hilde Mattheis and the Ver.di chief economist Dierk Hirschel.
