The Herner member of the Bundestag Michelle Müntefering (43) does not want to apply for the presidency of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD. Rather, the wife of former SPD federal chairman Franz Müntefering is aiming for a mandate in the EU Parliament next year.
“I was personally pleased that some wanted me to get involved in the state leadership of the party,” said Müntefering of the German Press Agency. “But I see my future tasks elsewhere.” Her home board of the SPD Herne has already unanimously supported her candidacy in the 2024 European elections.
After the resignation of state party leader Thomas Kutschaty, the NRW-SPD must look for a new leadership. In the state elections in May 2022, the SPD fell to an all-time low of 26.7 percent. Around ten months later, the 54-year-old Kuchaty resigned.
The NRW-SPD recommended Müntefering in the future a dual leadership. “The NRW-SPD has to form a team, it can and will,” said the 43-year-old. The SPD wants to elect the new leadership at a party conference on August 26th. On May 6th, the party wants to discuss the next steps at a strategy meeting in Münster. “Social Democracy must once again become the strongest political force in North Rhine-Westphalia,” said Müntefering. She wants to help with that.
