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Kevin Kühnert (archive photo)
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The SPD leadership wants Kevin Kühnert as their new general secretary.
On Friday, the party leadership first proposed the former Juso boss for the post.
According to SPIEGEL information, he was then unanimously nominated by the party executive committee.
However, the decision will not be made until December 11th.
Then the entire party leadership is re-elected at an SPD party congress.
Kühnert is to move up as General Secretary because the previous incumbent Lars Klingbeil is applying for the party chairmanship.
In addition to Klingbeil, Saskia Esken is also running for election again next week.
Kühnert's post as SPD vice-president should then go to the North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman Thomas Kutschaty.
The Saarland SPD state chief Anke Rehlinger, the SPD chairwoman from Schleswig-Holstein, Serpil Midyatli, and the previous labor minister Hubertus Heil are still earmarked for the other vice positions.
The Bundestag member Dietmar Nietan is to become treasurer.
He was also unanimously nominated by the board.
Favorite on the post
Kühnert has long been considered a favorite for the post of general secretary of the SPD.
In 2019, he and the SPD youth association played a major role in the election of Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans as party leaders.
He is also considered a close confidante of Klingbeil.
The 32-year-old Kühnert has made a steep ascent.
In November 2017 he became Juso federal chairman.
After the failure of the Jamaica explorations after the federal election in the same year, Kühnert made a name for himself as a vocal and eloquent critic of the grand coalition.
In December 2019 Kühnert was elected deputy party chairman, and in January 2021 he gave up the Juso chairmanship.
In September he moved into the Bundestag for the first time after the election.
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