According to SZ information, the 64-year-old announces that he will stand for re-election. The variant that he will resign after half the legislative period and that the party leftist Matthias Miersch could become his successor is off the table.
Rolf Mützenich wants to run again as SPD parliamentary group leader. The member of the Bundestag announced this according to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung to loud applause at the parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday. It had long been speculated that he would give up office halfway through the legislative period and that party leftist Matthias Miersch could become his successor.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but also what is now the largest current in the parliamentary group, the conservative Seeheimer Kreis, had bet that Mützenich would continue. He is considered a silent craftsman of power, for Scholz he always managed to organize the necessary majorities and hold the coalition together. The 64-year-old has led the largest parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2019.