Arif Taşdelen
After allegations by young women: General Secretary of the SPD Bavaria resigns
Bavaria’s SPD general secretary Arif Taşdelen is confronted with allegations from young female SPD members (archive photo)
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Arif Taşdelen has announced his resignation as campaign manager and general secretary of the Bavarian SPD. Background are ongoing allegations against him. He complains about “public prejudice”.
Nine months before the Bavarian state elections, the campaign manager and general secretary of the Bavarian SPD, Arif Taşdelen, has resigned. Taşdelen justified this in a statement distributed in Munich on Tuesday by saying that he had been “confronted with allegations and rumors about my communication within the party and with public prejudice” for months. This situation had become too stressful for him and his family, which is why he informed the state chairmen Ronja Endres and Florian von Brunn about his resignation.
Allegations against SPD general secretary
Just before Christmas she had “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reportsthat the Bavarian Jusos had excluded Taşdelen from all their events. The background was that several young women had complained about allegedly inappropriate behavior such as intrusive questions about cell phone numbers or attempts to contact them via social media. None of the allegations were criminally relevant, the newspaper reported at the time.