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SPD member of the Bundestag Florian Post
Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka / picture alliance / dpa
The SPD rebel Florian Post is also running for the German Bundestag in 2021.
At a delegates' conference in the north of Munich on Thursday evening, the 39-year-old MP prevailed against his challenger Philippa Sigl-Glöckner.
Post was nominated as a constituency candidate with 61 votes, Sigl-Glöckner received 15 votes.
The internal party duel over the constituency made headlines nationwide because Post is considered a critic of Chancellor candidate and finance minister Olaf Scholz and his opponent works as a personal advisor in Scholz's ministry.
Comrades from the constituency raised the charge that in Berlin they wanted to push the often cross-shooting mail out of the Bundestag.
Sigl-Glöckner, who is praised by many in the party leadership as a prominent economist and hope for the next generation, vehemently contradicted this.
The mud battle in Munich-North does not seem to have ended after the decision on the candidacy.
Post wrote on Twitter that he had expected Sigl-Glöckner to at least congratulate him.
Party friends accused him of kicking him in the social network and of bad style.
Post has been a member of parliament since 2013 and is considered a confidante of ex-SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel.
During the current legislative period, he repeatedly drew attention to himself with sharp attacks on Scholz and, above all, his confidante, ex-party and parliamentary group leader Andrea Nahles.
In terms of content, the Post repeatedly shot across the board: He organized the resistance against arms exports to Saudi Arabia and publicly criticized the course taken by Scholz and Nahles in the reform of paragraph 219a, which forbids advertising for abortions.
In this way, Post became an outsider in the Bundestag parliamentary group, and the top group around Nahles even recalled him from the economic committee in March 2019.
Obviously, this has not done any harm to the base.
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