After a scandal about the campaign manager: SPD chooses Niederbayerin with a “beautiful accent” as the successor

Created: 01/13/2023, 10:30 am

By: Florian Naumann

Ruth Müller is the new acting SPD general secretary in the year of the Bavarian election.

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The Bavarian SPD wants to "govern" soon.

A false start to the election year doesn't make it any easier.

A Lower Bavarian and a "genuine Franconian" should fix it.

Munich – The SPD started the year of the Bavarian election with unpleasant turbulence: Ironically, Secretary General Arif Tasdelen – and thus the campaign manager – left the comrades from the flag.

A co-reason were rather piquant allegations.

Now the Bavarian SPD has found the successor.

The state executive board chose Ruth Müller “almost unanimously” as acting general secretary, said state head and top candidate Florian von Brunn on Friday morning (January 13).

Müller is "a strong and self-confident woman" with a focus on the environment, agriculture, but also an ear for the everyday life of Bavarians, explained his co Ronja Endres.

In addition, it is a Lower Bavarian "with a beautiful Bavarian accent," she joked.

The politician Nasser Ahmed from the Nuremberg city council becomes Müller's deputy.

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Müller and Ahmed do not inherit an easy task.

The SPD saw the most recent "Bayern trend" of the BR in the single digits.

The two state chairmen had held many talks in the past few days about the new appointment, but nothing was initially made public about the search for personnel.

Müller herself emphasized that she was aware of the concerns of people in rural areas.

She knows "every radio hole personally" between her place of residence Pfeffenhausen and Landshut.

"I know what it's like when you're 25 kilometers from the nearest train station, I know what it's like when the last bus into town comes in at 7 p.m.," she explained.

She has not yet mothballed her "nuclear power, no thanks!" flag, she emphasized at the same time with a view to the debate about nuclear power plant lifetime extensions.

Ahmed spoke of a new "tandem" with Müller.

He was a "genuine Franconian," said the man from Nuremberg.

Now “town and country”, “woman and man”, “white and black” come together.

Among other things, he wanted to strengthen the “Attack Department”.

From Nuremberg, he knows Prime Minister Markus Söder's (CSU) way of working very well: In the end, there is usually only "hot air".

"This state government is failing when it comes to migration policy," he complained.

Müller's predecessor Tasdelen resigned on Wednesday after less than two years.

He was responding to internal party allegations.

It was said that he behaved inappropriately towards young women - but not in any way criminally relevant.

Tasdelen justified the step with the high burden on him and his family.

At the same time, he emphasized that the SPD should be able to start “without distraction in this important state election year” through the new appointment.

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In one case, Tasdelen is said to have insistently asked for the cell phone number of a young SPD candidate.

Tasdelen initially announced that he would formulate more carefully in the future and take part in so-called awareness training.

Either way, the Bavarian SPD faces a mammoth task.

There is also no sign of a chancellor bonus before the state elections in October.

Instead, the "Bavaria coalition" around Markus Söder (CSU) and Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) seems to agree on another term together.

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"We want to govern," said co-president Ronja Endres in October at the selection of the SPD's top candidate.

Your colleague in the chair, Florian von Brunn, should set it up.

In the morning he pointed to a new Insa survey, according to which the SPD was now in the double-digit range and ahead of the Free Voters - and warned the CSU and Free Voters of an anti-immigration election campaign.

"I'm a woman and I know what 'nine months' means," said Müller himself, referring to the election date.

A lot can be achieved during this time.

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