Bundestag election: SPD candidate Claudia Tausend is enjoying the boom of the party and has a thousand plans

As a “real working-class child”, Claudia Tausend from Munich still has big plans for Berlin.

She would like to move into the Bundestag again on September 26th and has clear “work assignments” in her luggage.

As soon as she has sat down, Claudia Tausend jumps up again.

No ashtray on the table!

The passionate smoker needs a cigarette now.

Election time is just stress.

She has just come back from the senior afternoon at the Perlacher AWO, later there is an important meeting with her support group.

And the next day there should be a big bike tour through the electoral area, but it is predicted that it will rain continuously.

Bundestag elections in Munich: Claudia Tausend is happy, because "they trust the SPD to do something again!"

Thousands could actually afford a relatively relaxed election campaign.

With 10th place on the state list, the SPD * politician has the best chance of moving into the Bundestag again on September 26th.

For the third time.

She inherited the constituency * in 2005 from the former SPD MP Fritz Schösser, after an initial dry spell it worked out in 2013.

• Name:

  Claudia thousand

• Age:

  57

• Profession:

  Graduate geographer

• Party:

  SPD

• Constituency:

  Munich East

• Marital status

  :

  single

"The east of Munich has always been considered difficult to win," says the Munich * SPD leader, "that was never a stronghold of the SPD." A direct mandate is unrealistic even now.

In the current forecasts, the new Green candidate Vaniessa Rashid is wafer-thin * the previous direct winner Wolfgang Stefinger (CSU).

Still, Tausend is enjoying the boom in their party.

"Suddenly you are interesting again as a conversation partner." On their campaign tour even wishes were loud, because: "You trust the SPD to do something again!" For her, Olaf Scholz as Chancellor and the SPD as the strongest parliamentary group in the Bundestag are realistic: "It's going well now for the SPD. "

Housing construction, social land law and inner-city development are a thousand priorities in the Bundestag

Your explanation for the upward trend: "We have a situation of upheaval in Germany." That will have consequences, especially in urban areas. Thousands know their way around here. She was a city councilor in Munich for more than 17 years, most recently as deputy parliamentary group leader and planning spokesperson. With the election to the Bundestag, she got out in the town hall. In the Bundestag she wanted to attack precisely those things "which I, as a city councilor, could not implement because federal laws were opposed". That is her "added value" for Munich as a member of parliament. Her main topics in Berlin are housing construction, social land law and inner-city development.

“I think I've already achieved quite a bit recently.” What is meant is the Building Land Mobilization Act, which recently came into force.

This means that municipalities with a tight housing market gain significantly more influence when converting rental apartments into owner-occupied apartments.

Cities like Munich could, for example, prescribe a proportion of subsidized apartments in inner-city locations without a development plan and receive a right of first refusal including a price limit.

Without the support of Interior and Building Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), the whole thing would have been more difficult or even impossible, says Tausend.

“When it comes to topics that are relevant on site, you need all your strength.

One cannot pull that up politically alone. "

Bundestag election Munich: a thousand sees "work orders" that still have to be done

Many ideas come from Munich and Hamburg, says the MP. These are "work orders" for them. The 57-year-old also wants to go back to the Bundestag “very gladly” because she still has a lot to do there. But it is not just a representation of the interests of big cities. She also knows the countryside. "I grew up on a deserted farm near Vilsbiburg, then went to boarding school in Landshut before I moved to Munich to study geography."

In addition to housing, the social democrat also sees retail, the auto industry, the expansion of renewable energies and the consequences of climate change as the major issues of the future. “People ask themselves: what is in store for us, what will the whole thing cost me?” The SPD and Olaf Scholz * have clearer statements in their offer than their competitors. This signals security and reliability in times of change. A thousand sees the chance for a traffic light coalition - the recently hotly debated coalition with the left "is a nightmare for me". Carmen Ick-Dietl

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