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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer should lead the Berlin Left in the election for the House of Representatives in the coming year.
The party's state executive nominated the 46-year-old as a top candidate on Tuesday evening.
That said a spokeswoman.
Lederer is to be finally elected to number one on the state list at a state representative assembly in April 2021. As early as 2016, he led the left in the election campaign, since then he has been vice head of government and senator for culture and Europe in a red-red-green coalition.
It is not surprising that Lederer was chosen.
The doctor of law is one of the most experienced, high-profile and well-known politicians on the left.
In surveys, he regularly gets high sympathy ratings and on this basis is considered one of the most popular politicians in Berlin.
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Born in Schwerin, he moved into the House of Representatives in 2003 at the age of 29, to which he was a member until 2017.
From 2005 to 2016 he was state chairman of his party, which was initially still called the PDS.
Lederer's trademark is his way of thinking and talking quickly.
The Left emerged from the 2016 parliamentary elections as the third strongest party behind the SPD, CDU and just ahead of the Greens.
At the moment, according to surveys, Red-Red-Green still has a majority, but the Greens are the strongest party.
Around ten months before the election, the ranks of the designated top candidates are slowly being completed - even if none of them have been finally elected at a party congress.
The SPD state executive nominated the Federal Minister for Family Affairs and newly appointed party leader Franziska Giffey just a few days ago.
The Greens nominated former state chairwoman Bettina Jarasch, the CDU its state chairman Kai Wegner.
At the AfD, parliamentary group leader Georg Pazderski declared his willingness to run for the top spot a long time ago.
The FDP should send its parliamentary group leader Sebastian Czaja into the race.
Both have not yet been officially nominated.