Lower Saxony’s SPD has decided on the personnel proposals for the upcoming elections of the state executive board. This was announced by a party spokesman for the German Press Agency on Friday evening. Stephan Weil is therefore again as state chairman – he was nominated about a month ago.
The 64-year-old has been chairman of the SPD in Lower Saxony since 2012. He has been the state’s prime minister since 2013. A rival candidate for the post of state chairman is considered unlikely. Weil should be elected for another two years at the state party conference next Saturday in Aurich.
In addition to Weil, there should continue to be five deputies. Dunja Kreiser, Economics Minister Olaf Lies and Philipp Raulfs were proposed by the state board – they are already deputies. The parliamentary group leader Grant Hendrik Tonne and Minister of Justice Kathrin Wahlmann were newly proposed.
Dörte Liebetruth, member of the state parliament, is to become the new SPD general secretary and thus succeed Hanna Naber, who became state parliament president last year. According to the ideas of the state executive, Ulrich Watermann should remain treasurer of the party.
