In the ballot for the SPD presidency comes movement: The candidate teams Olaf Scholz / Klara Geywitz and Norbert Walter-Borjans / Saskia Esken have delivered the first public duel in SPIEGEL debate.
Former North Rhine-Westphalian Finance Minister Walter-Borjans and Member of Parliament Esken were in the first round of the member survey only about 1.6 percent behind Scholz and Geywitz. From 19 to 29 November, around 425,000 Social Democrats are called to vote for the future party leadership.
Walter Borjans advised in the SPIEGEL conversation of his party to renounce an SPD chancellor candidate. I think I would first advertise that we set up a top candidate, "said Walter-Borjans He does not believe" that we are currently at this point, a chancellor candidates set up, "said the former NRW Finance Minister So far, it has been part of the self-understanding of the Social Democrats, with an official chancellor candidate as well as the Union to substantiate the claim to make the head of government.
See the argument in the video here: