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Berlin (dpa) - The SPD parliamentary group needs a second ballot when nominating its candidate for the office of Vice President of the Bundestag.
According to dpa information from parliamentary groups, the first ballot ended in a draw on Tuesday.
According to this, 66 members voted for the former Minister of Health Ulla Schmidt and 66 members for the Brandenburg Bundestag member Dagmar Ziegler.
It is about the succession of the deceased Bundestag Vice President Thomas Oppermann. The personality was highly controversial in the SPD parliamentary group. The faction board had proposed the 60-year-old Ziegler and justified this, among other things, with her origin from East Germany. Other MPs wanted to ensure that the 71-year-old Schmidt can run for office again. She was already Vice President of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017. Oppermann collapsed and died unexpectedly shortly before a television interview in October.