Vice-President and SPD MP Schmitt leaves state parliament
After more than 27 years, the Vice-President of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and SPD MP Astrid Schmitt will leave parliament at the end of the year. The 64-year-old native of Hamburg is resigning her seat for personal reasons, as the SPD parliamentary group announced in Mainz on Wednesday. She will be replaced in the parliament in Mainz by Jens Jenssen, chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Vulkaneifel constituency.
According to the information provided, Schmitt has been a member of the state parliament since May 18, 1996 and has held the office of Vice President since May 1, 2018. According to the SPD parliamentary group, it will now discuss who will succeed Schmitt in several committees and internal party working groups. A proposal for a successor to the office of Vice-President of the state parliament is also to be drawn up.
The SPD parliamentary group will need to decide on a successor for Astrid Schmitt in several committees and internal party working groups, as she is stepping down from her role as Vice-President of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and SPD MP. In the upcoming parliamentary session, Jens Jenssen, the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Vulkaneifel constituency, will take over Schmitt's seat in the state parliament.
Source: www.dpa.com
