SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert has announced his resignation from his post – according to his own statements due to health problems.
Berlin – Kevin Kühnert resigns as general secretary of the SPD. The 35-year-old justifies this step with health problems. He announced this in a written press release.
Kevin Kühnert declares his resignation: Due to health problems – “I’m drawing conclusions”
A good year before the federal election, Kevin Kühnert is resigning as general secretary of the SPD. In a letter to party members and the public, he drew attention to health problems in the background of his decision. “I need the energy that is necessary for my office and an election campaign in the foreseeable future in order to get healthy again. That’s why I draw the conclusions,” he writes.
He therefore informed the party leaders Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil that he was resigning as general secretary today. He will not run as a member of parliament again in the federal election. The Berliner is therefore withdrawing from politics for the time being.
Kühnert resigns as SPD general secretary: “Decisions cost me a lot of energy”
“These decisions took me a lot of effort and they hurt me because I put my heart and soul into my political work,” emphasized the politician. But he bears responsibility for himself and for the SPD. “By taking full care of my health now, I believe I can best fulfill my dual responsibility.” The full commitment of the entire SPD is necessary for a victory in the federal election.
Kühnert has been General Secretary of the Social Democrats since 2021 and entered the Bundestag in the same year. He previously became known nationwide as chairman of the Jusos – among other things because he organized a campaign against a GroKo made up of the Union and the SPD. In 2019 he played a decisive role when the party leftists Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans came to the top of the SPD in the runoff election against today’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz. (bb/dpa)
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