SPD elects Lars-Klingbeil and Saskia Esken as new dual leadership (video)

Saturday afternoon in Berlin. The SPD federal party conference has elected Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken as the new dual leadership. The previous Secretary General received 86.3 percent of the valid votes cast at the party congress on Saturday. Esken was confirmed in office with 76.7 percent. The previous co-chair, Norbert Walter-Borjans, was no longer running. Lars Klingbeil previously appealed in his application speech for the SPD party chairmanship to a feeling of unity in order to make further electoral successes possible. “I am firmly convinced that we are on the threshold of a social democratic decade. Not as an end in itself, but because we have an idea of ​​what is good for the people and our country in the next few years.” As the successor to Klingbeil as General Secretary, the 32-year-old former Juso boss Kevin Kühnert was elected with around 78 percent of the vote. In purely formal terms, the party congress members then have to confirm the election by postal vote by December 18.