Domestic message service: Vice President Selen | EUROtoday

Sinan Selen, the lengthy -time Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV), is to guide the home message service sooner or later. Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) determined. As may very well be heard from coalition circles, the put up, which has been vacant since autumn final 12 months, is among the high posts, by way of whose occupation Union and the SPD wished to speak to one another prematurely. The personnel are anticipated to be determined within the cupboard this Wednesday. Several media had beforehand reported.

Vice President of the Protection of the Constitution since 2019

Selen has been Vice President of the BFV for the reason that starting of 2019. Previously, the Cologne workforce, who appeared again on a protracted profession within the safety authorities, had taken care of safety points on the TUI group throughout a three-year journey to the non-public sector.

The 53-year-old had managed the authority since November 2024 along with Vice President Silke Willems. He is the primary BFV president to not born in Germany. As a toddler, selenium got here to Germany together with his mother and father from Turkey.

The former President of the Federal Office, Thomas Haldenwang, introduced in November that he was aiming for a candidacy for the CDU within the Bundestag election. It was identified for a very long time that Haldenwang quickly wished to retire. The announcement that he wished to compete for the CDU as a direct candidate in Wuppertal got here as a shock to many. His candidacy was not profitable.