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SPD: Member of Parliament Florian Post settles with party leadership

2021-03-09T19:10:29.207Z


"Those who do not participate will be punished": The SPD member Florian Post has lost an internal vote and is now attacking the party leadership around Saskia Esken and Kevin Kühnert.


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SPD member of the Bundestag Florian Post

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The Bavarian SPD MP Florian Post takes a sharp approach to the leadership of his party.

"Everything should now be brushed inside out in the SPD, and whoever does not participate will be punished," said Post of the magazine "Cicero".

"In the meantime, you're already being looked at in this party crookedly when you're wearing a suit!" Post said, Realos as he was "quickly put in the right corner."

The background to the sharp tones is a personal defeat: On the weekend, Post lost a candidate for a fight in Upper Bavaria, and the first place on the list went to the trade unionist Sebastian Roloff.

In order to move into the Bundestag again, Post would have to win its constituency in Munich-North directly.

The chances of this are rather bad.

Post also commented on the SPD dispute over identity politics.

He supported the former Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse and sharply attacked the party leadership around Saskia Esken and Kevin Kühnert: "We shouldn't let these Bonsai Jacobins tell us how to speak," said Post "Cicero".

In an email from Secretary General Lars Klingbeil there was "candidate posters".

"What kind of Gaga language is that?"

Post also etched against the Bavarian SPD state chairman Natascha Kohnen.

Under her leadership, the Bavarian SPD is now "more like a sect than a party."

Against the background of polls around seven percent try the party leadership around Kohnen "with all might" to push their own followers through to safe places.

Post has been a member of parliament since 2013 and is considered a confidante of ex-SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel.

In the current legislative period, he repeatedly drew attention to himself with sharp attacks on Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and above all his confidante, ex-party and parliamentary group leader Andrea Nahles.

In this way, Post became an outsider in the parliamentary group, and the top group around Nahles even recalled him from the economic committee in March 2019.

Post wants to announce on Thursday how things are going for him.

There are two options, he told SPIEGEL: Either he withdraw from the election campaign or he is only running as the first-time candidate.

He will send two statements on Thursday morning, according to Post.

"One from me personally and one from my political campaign manager, Munich's former mayor Christian Ude."

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Source: spiegel

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