Of Berlin of governing mayors: Wowereit wants to withdraw

Of Berlin of governing mayors Klaus Wowereit probably withdraws: After mirror online information the SPD politician will explain his resignation in the afternoon as 11 December. The Greens require new elections.

Berlin - Klaus Wowereit wants to obviously withdraw as governing mayors Berlins. After information from Spiegel online the SPD politician will announce this decision at a press conference at 13 o'clock, the parting from the office is to take place on 11 December. The senate chancellery confirmed the appearance Wowereits in the red city hall in the early afternoon. At present the citizen of Berlin senate meets.

Wowereit, 60, leads a coalition from SPD and CDU in Berlin. He is since 16 June 2001 a governing mayor of Berlin. The lawyer was from 2009 to 2013 of deputy SPD Federal leaders. For a while Wowereit was considered as a possible candidate for the chancellorship of its party for the election to the Bundestag 2013. In the past it had given again and again rumors over a premature outlet to Wowereits. Above all the problems with the citizen of Berlin large airport BER overshadowed last the term of office of the SPD politician. Its personal poll ratings are in the cellar. Several citizens of Berlin of SPD district chapters had therefore increased the pressure last to Wowereit to create clarity over its political future. In the discussion for it a closed conference of the SPD state executive committee was at the end of Septembers. Now Wowereit made its decision for the surprise of the public rather.

SPD head Stöß could become successor Wowereits
as possible successors to be valid the citizen of Berlin SPD head Jan Stöß and the SPD faction leader in the Lower House, Raed Saleh. Outside chances might have also Minister for Urban Development Michael Müller and the work senator Dilek Kolat. The non-party Finance Senator Ulrich Nußbaum is likewise in the discussion. How “Tagesspiegel” and the “picture” - newspaper report, Stöß is to become successor Wowereits. Therefore the SPD state executive committee meets in the afternoon, in whose meeting the party chief wants to suggest itself as new head of government. In current surveys the CDU lies clearly before the SPD in Berlin. The CDU could use the step of Wowereit thus also to cause new elections in order to conquer even the red city hall.

The Greens require new elections
 the Greens plead in view of the decision of Wowereit for new elections. “The citizens of Berlin have therefore a claim to decide how it continues now: We demand new elections” said Ramona Pop, Fraktionschefin of the Greens in the Lower House, Spiegel online. It praised the announced resignation Wowereits: “I have respect for this decision.” The SPD politician has “large earnings around this city, it Berlin coined”. But Pop did not save also with criticism. “However it leaves also a heavy inheritance, not least because of the chaos around the BER.”