After postponement due to Corona: SPD elects new party leadership - old friends in dual leadership?

For months, Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey has been officially named the new hope for the capital's SPD.

Now the corona-related hanging part is over.

• The

  SPD

  wants to

  elect

  a new

  party leadership

  at a party congress

  .

• Federal Family Minister

  Franziska Giffey

  and parliamentary group leader

  Raed Saleh

  could be chosen as the new dual

  leadership

  .

• Because of the

  corona pandemic

  *, the

  election should

  take place online.

Berlin -

After the postponement of two party conferences due to the corona pandemic *, the

Berlin

* now wants to appoint Federal Family Minister

and parliamentary group leader

as the new dual leadership.

At a party conference on Friday and Saturday, a new party leadership is to be elected.

The previous party leader

, who is also the governing mayor of a red-red-green alliance, will not run again.

He is running for the Bundestag next year.

It is likely that

also be the

top candidate

for the 2021 parliamentary elections.

But that is not the subject of the party congress.

The Berlin SPD leadership had already agreed on the change at the top at the beginning of the year.

In surveys, the SPD is no longer the strongest party in the capital.

New dual leadership for the SPD: Giffey should lead the party forward again as a beam woman

In view of the corona pandemic *, the meeting with 279 delegates is largely online.

For the election - in addition to the party leadership, the entire board will be redefined - the delegates then go to the SPD district offices to throw their ballot papers into a ballot box.

The

will be interrupted.

The result of the election of the party leadership on Saturday morning will be counted and announced.

Giffey - so the hope - should lead the SPD in the capital as a kind of beam woman back forward.

As district mayor in the multi-cultural district of

, she also made a name for herself nationwide with pragmatic politics and a comparatively close relationship with people.

In March 2018 she was promoted to Federal Minister for Family Affairs.

SPD party convention: candidate Giffey in distress due to plagiarism affair

However, Giffey has a heavy burden: the affair of possible

in her

.

The Free University of Berlin (FU) gave her a reprimand in autumn 2019 for deficiencies in her work, but did not withdraw her doctorate.

After widespread criticism of this approach, the FU recently announced a new examination that should be completed by the end of the lecture period of the winter semester - i.e. by the end of February.

Giffey's complaint was withdrawn.

Video: SPD Family Minister Franziska Giffey renounces her doctorate

Under the pressure of new hardships at work,

had recently announced that

she was

up her

.

"Who I am and what I can do does not depend on this title," she explained.

wants to remain

- and also take on more responsibility in the Berlin SPD.

During the first review of her doctoral thesis last year, she announced that she would resign if her title was revoked.

(dpa / fmü)