Party leadership - New start for the SPD parliamentary group with former leader Midyatli
The SPD parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament has elected Serpil Midyatli as its chairperson. She received eleven votes from the twelve members of parliament on Tuesday without any opposing candidates. There was one abstention. The new election had become necessary because Thomas Losse-Müller had announced his resignation last week after one and a half years. Midyatli thanked her colleagues and her predecessor for his work. She was elected for one year, but is available for the entire legislative period, she said.
The 48-year-old, who was re-elected deputy chairwoman of the SPD at the party conference at the weekend, had already led the parliamentary group until the 2022 state elections. However, following the party's disastrous performance, Midyatli had to make way for Losse-Müller, who had no chance against Minister President Daniel Günther (CDU).
The SPD achieved its worst result ever with 16 percent and did not win a single constituency. With twelve MPs, it is only the third largest parliamentary group in the state parliament. The 50-year-old former banker, State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery Losse-Müller also wants to give up his seat in the state parliament in April and move to the Climate Neutrality Foundation as Managing Director.
After the 2022 state parliamentary elections, a conscious decision was made during the crisis "that we would not be doing any hard-hitting opposition work", but that the country had to stand together during the crisis, said Midyatli. They would continue to focus on what was best for the country in the future.
"As you can imagine, I will do things a little differently, perhaps even more pointedly at one point or another," said the 48-year-old on the future course of the opposition. She intends to surprise.
Right now, many issues are topical. "We can see that the black-green coalition is in a much worse position than the Jamaica alliance in Schleswig-Holstein was recently," said the new opposition leader. Many things are not just in a mess because of the crises. "The bread and butter business is not working in Schleswig-Holstein." She cited childcare and education policy as particularly important issues.
In the months leading up to his resignation, Losse-Müller had devoted much of his time to his favorite topic, the goal of making Schleswig-Holstein the first climate-neutral federal state. However, the SPD parliamentary group failed in the most recent session of the state parliament with a motion to set up a billion-euro loan-financed program to achieve this. Shortly after the momentous ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on budgetary policy and the debt brake, the willingness of MPs to deal with a new special fund was extremely low.
Midyatli will probably be more rhetorical, emphasized the chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, Tobias Koch, with a view to the election. "We already know this." However, it did not jeopardize the CDU's electoral success in the last state election. His party was relying on its own strength and not looking so much at what the opposition was doing.
Green Party parliamentary group leader Lasse Petersdotter congratulated Midyatli on her election. "She is not only taking on this position in the middle of the current legislative period, but also in the midst of turbulent times, triggered by the crises of the recent past and present." Midyatli is a very experienced colleague, which will certainly help her in her prominent role as opposition leader. "I look forward to working with her and debating with her in the upcoming plenary sessions."
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- The CDU's parliamentary group chairperson, Tobias Koch, anticipates that Serpil Midyatli, the new opposition leader, might adopt a more rhetorical approach due to her election.
- Despite losing eleven votes in the Schleswig-Holstein state election, the SPD still managed to secure twelve seats in the state parliament, making them the third largest parliamentary group.
- After the state election, Thomas Losse-Müller, the former SPD chairperson of the parliamentary group, decided to resign from his seat in the state parliament and take up a position as the Managing Director of the Climate Neutrality Foundation.
- The SPD's poor performance in the 2022 state election, with only 16% of the vote, led to Serpil Midyatli stepping down as chairperson, making way for Thomas Losse-Müller, who had no chance against Minister President Daniel Günther (CDU).
- Daniel Günther, the CDU's leader in Schleswig-Holstein, had no competition in the state election, outperforming the party's disastrous result in the previous election.
- The Green Party's parliamentary group leader, Lasse Petersdotter, congratulated Serpil Midyatli on her election, praising her as a very experienced colleague who will undoubtedly be an asset in her new role as opposition leader.
Source: www.stern.de
