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Thomas Losse-Müller: SPD top candidate in spe
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The SPD in Schleswig-Holstein wants to nominate former State Secretary Thomas Losse-Müller as a top candidate for the state election in 2021.
SPIEGEL learned this from party circles.
A spokesman did not want to comment on this.
The personality is a surprise.
So far it has been considered likely that the state chairwoman Serpil Midyatli will challenge Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU).
Midyatli, who is also the SPD's deputy federal chairman, had always emphasized that as head of the country, she had the right to propose the top candidate.
At the same time, she did not commit.
"We in the state executive decided to make a decision after the summer vacation," she told SPIEGEL in June.
"I'm sticking to this schedule." Midyatli had recently also been elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.
The nomination of the top candidate should take place next Sunday.
The party has invited to a press conference for this.
According to SPIEGEL information, it can be assumed that Midyatli rates Losse-Müller's chances of success higher than her own.
The 48-year-old was head of the Kiel State Chancellery from 2014 to 2017 under the then SPD Prime Minister Torsten Albig.
At that time Losse-Müller was still a member of the Greens.
He only switched to the SPD last year.
He recently announced that he wanted to run for the state parliament in the constituency of Eckernförde.
With this he would also compete with Prime Minister Günther in his home constituency.
A Jamaican coalition made up of the CDU, FDP and the Greens has been ruling in Kiel since 2017.
It also has a majority in recent polls.