State authorities: Change of management in Lower Saxony: Weil fingers over to Lies | EUROtoday

Lower Saxony’s lengthy -time Prime Minister Stephan Weil stops. According to data from the German Press Agency, the 66-year-old will withdraw each as a SPD state chairman and as head of presidency. At 2:00 p.m. as a result of in a press convention to submit the workplaces.

The nation’s Economic Minister, Olaf Lies. The 57-year-old was already head of state of the SPD from 2010 to 2012 and even wished to turn out to be prime minister on the time. Before the 2013 state election, he needed to depart the SPD prime candidate after a member survey as a result of. Twelve years as a minister later, he’ll now turn out to be head of presidency – as a result of the previous competitor of all folks is now lifting him into the State Chancellery.

An period ends in Lower Saxony with the time period of Weil. Only two present prime ministers are in workplace longer: Reiner Haseloff in Saxony-Anhalt and Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Württemberg. The Lower Saxony file by Ernst Albrecht (CDU) is missed by the early retreat: The father of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was 14 years of head of presidency.

“Prince Charles von der Leine”

The roots of the handover of the workplace lie in an SPD membership resolution in November 2011. Before the 2013 state election, the Social Democrats had the comrades vote who ought to problem the Prime Minister David McAllister from the CDU on the time. The eloquent SPD state chairwoman reads, a human catcher and hug – or the extra skilled, but additionally pale lawyer as a result of because the mayor of Hanover?

At that point, we had been just below 53 to 46 %. He took excessive candidate, the state presidency that had beforehand been held, and was elected prime minister. However, learn at his aspect – within the shadow of Weil, however as a possible crown prince. Or, because the “taz” formulated it: as “Prince Charles von der Leine”. In the three governments of Weil, Lies was solely financial, then environmental and once more economics minister.

Two donkeys, three canine, two mini wines

The change to learn is just not an actual contemporary begin. A special kind than as a result of the educated electrical engineer is already, quite a sort of human good friend than the bureaucrat.

The Frisian was born in Wilhelmshaven and nonetheless lives in Sande not far-off. He is married, has two daughters – and plenty of animals: chickens, cats, two Göttingen mini wines, two donkeys and three canine, because the “Hannoversche Allgemeine” reported. Lies got here to politics by way of union work. He has been a SPD member since 2002, in 2008 he turned a member of the state parliament.

In 2019, Lies nearly left politics

Once, nonetheless, the unwritten plan from switching to the State Chancellery would have nearly burst: In summer season 2019, it had a extremely endowed provide from the BDEW power foyer association-and began brooding.

Finally remained, it was not publicly registering another claims and nonetheless retained nice affect inside the get together. For instance, the now 57-year-old was solely concerned within the ongoing coalition negotiations within the federal authorities as head of the SPD working group for power and local weather.

Crisis supervisor as a result of was a continuing in stressed instances

The SPD calculation behind the switch of energy in Hanover reads: Lies ought to get an workplace bonus earlier than the state parliament is predicted to be re-elected in autumn 2027.

The successor of “state father” as a result of will probably be a problem for Lies. Weil was unchallenged within the get together, along with his calm, down -to -earth method, he managed that the SPD within the nation not too long ago achieved higher and higher election outcomes than nationwide. And: Because it usually acted as a bridge builder between state and federal politics, even when he had no management function within the Federal SPD.

Opposition sees due to duty for the VW disaster

We had been usually requested as a disaster supervisor, together with in corona pandemic. While others depend on pithy sayings and alone, he at all times appeared for the consensus and compromise.

Because it was a part-time workplace as a VW supervisory board within the meantime: The diesel affair at Volkswagen introduced the auto giants into disrepute-but no less than the state treasury was paying a fantastic of 1 billion euros.

However, the present lulls at VW additionally clouds the temper in Lower Saxony’s financial system as an entire. Hustet VW, Lower Saxony has flu, it’s stated. According to the opposition, Weil, as a protracted -standing supervisory board, bears duty in view of the give attention to electromobility determined right now. The nation holds 20 % of the voting rights within the VW group.

The CDU additionally threw a phrase fracture as a result of a number of days in the past, ought to it withdraw prematurely. Because Weil had at all times stated concerning the hypothesis that he stays in workplace till the subsequent election, supplied that his well being permits.