The former Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia, Norbert Walter-Borjans, and the member of the Bundestag Saskia Esken want to become chairmen of the SPD. The condition: The state executive committee of North Rhine-Westphalia should nominate her. They wanted to run "only with the clear vote of the national executive committee", said Walter Borjans.
According to WDR, the board will meet next Friday to discuss the support of potential candidates. From NRW, the former NRW Family Minister Christina Kampmann and the Member of Parliament Karl Lauterbach have already thrown their hats into the ring.
"I am driven by the crisis of the SPD"
"Many people who are close to or want to be close to the SPD have asked me to run for the party chairmanship," Walter-Borjans told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". "The crisis of the SPD has driven me a long time ago and I would feel guilty if I refused the request to participate in a new start."
SPD procedure for the party presidency
The schedule at a glance:
1st of July: Applications
From this day, teams of two or individual applicants may submit their candidacy for the SPD Chairmanship. For a candidacy they need the support of at least five sub-districts, a district or a national association.
September 1: Regional conferences
The application deadline ends. The candidates then present themselves in 23 regional conferences of the base. For five weeks, they can promote themselves among the members. The prelude is on 4 September in Saarbrücken, the final on 12 October in Munich.
October 14: Basic decision
The approximately 440,000 SPD members may elect their candidate or their team of candidates for the party leadership in a basic decision .
October 26: result of the membership vote
The result of the membership decision will be presented. If no candidate or double team receives over 50 percent of the votes, there should be a casting vote between the top two. The election is not legally binding , politically, the party congress is unlikely to pass the vote of the members.
December 6-8: Party Congress
The federal party convention of the SPD is coming together in Berlin. He should formally elect the winner of the membership decision to the SPD leadership - and decide on the midterm review of the Grand Coalition.
Nationwide, Walter Borjans became known because in 2012, as Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia, he bought so-called tax CDs, on which the data of tax evaders are stored. He was Finance Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 to 2017.
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