decision before Easter
Lang to Spiegel successor: “It will be a woman”
4/12/2022, 3:23 p.m
After the first departure of the traffic light government, the Greens chairmen Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour determine the successor to the resigned Anne Spiegel. The Greens are certain that the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs should again be headed by a woman. Some names are already being traded.
According to Green party leader Ricarda Lang, Anne Spiegel’s successor as Federal Minister for Family Affairs should be a woman. “It will be a woman,” Lang said at a press conference in Husum. In addition to this requirement, the candidate must also be competent. When asked whether the successor, like Spiegel, had to belong to the left wing of the party, Lang did not answer.
A decision is expected later this week. Co-Chair Omid Nouripour said they knew it had to be done quickly and hoped to have a proposal by Easter.
Lang had also announced a decision this week in “ntv Frühstart”. There is “a need to clarify this question quickly,” said Lang. “That means I don’t think we’ll be dealing with this question beyond Easter.” In addition, Lang already indicated that a woman would again take over the post in the Ministry of Family Affairs. “At the time we said we would fill our ministerial posts equally. Of course we will stick to this principle.”
Göring-Eckardt and Dröge traded for successor
The Green politicians Katharina Dröge and Katrin Göring-Eckardt are traded as possible successors to Spiegel. The graduate economist Dröge has been chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group together with Britta Haßelmann since December 2021. Dröge has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. Dröge is attributed to the left wing of the party.
Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt has been a member of the Bundestag since 1998 and has repeatedly been traded for a post in the cabinet in the past. She belongs to the Realo wing of the party.
“We have an incredible opportunity to modernize social policy because the reality of society has arrived in the government,” Lang said in Husum. “That has to be implemented first. We now have a special responsibility, where a lot of women, a lot of children arrive from Ukraine and need special protection.”
Spiegel resigned on Monday after criticism of her four-week vacation in France shortly after the flood disaster last summer in the Ahr Valley. At that time she acted as Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of the Environment. She cited political pressure as the reason. She wants to avert damage from the office.