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Berlin (dpa / bb) - New applicants are striving for parliaments, experienced politicians are giving up or breaking new ground: Almost eight months before the elections for the House of Representatives and the Bundestag on September 26, a number of candidates and personal constellations are certain in Berlin.
However, due to the corona pandemic and unclear legal questions with regard to digital formats, the parties also had to accept delays in the nomination process, as a survey by the German press agency revealed.
Probably the most prominent newcomer to Berlin in the Bundestag is the Governing Mayor Michael Müller.
At the end of this legislative period, the SPD politician will quit the Red City Hall after seven years and run for the German parliament in the constituency of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Should he not get the constituency directly, Müller should be elected to the Bundestag with a good place on the state list.
Other former state politicians are also drawn there: On the left, this concerns the long-time parliamentary group leader in the House of Representatives, Udo Wolf (Pankow), in the case of the Greens their state chairman Nina Stahr (Steglitz-Zehlendorf), in the CDU ex-health senator Mario Czaja (Marzahn- Hellersdorf).
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At the SPD, ex-Juso boss Kevin Kühnert is also hoping for this career move: he had snatched a candidacy from Müller in the constituency of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, where this is rooted.
Former Berlin Juso boss Annika Klose is running in Mitte.
Spandau's district mayor Helmut Kleebank is also drawn to the Bundestag.
But veteran Berlin members of the Bundestag are also running again: Renate Künast (Greens / Tempelhof-Schöneberg) is one of them or Jan-Marco Luczak (CDU / Tempelhof-Schöneberg).
Gregor Gysi (Köpenick), Petra Pau (Marzahn-Hellersdorf) and Gesine Lötzsch (Lichtenberg) should - next to Wolf - again ensure direct mandates for the left in the eastern part of Berlin.
The members of the Bundestag who are running again include Pascal Meiser (left), Canan Bayram (Greens) and Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD), who should fight an exciting duel for the direct mandate in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
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There are also politicians like Beatrix von Storch (AfD / Mitte), Christina Schwarzer (CDU / Neukölln), Klaus-Dieter Gröhler (CDU / Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf), Thomas Heilmann (CDU / Steglitz-Zehlendorf), Klaus Mindrup (SPD / Pankow) , Stefan Gelbhaar (Greens / Pankow), FDP state chief Christoph Meyer (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) and Daniela Kluckert (FDP / Pankow), who have all been represented in at least one legislature in the Bundestag.
The leftist Stefan Liebig (Pankow) does not run again after around twelve years in the Bundestag.
The CDU politician Frank Steffel (Reinickendorf) and SPD man Fritz Felgentreu (Neukölln) are also leaving the Bundestag.
Instead of serial winner Steffel, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters is to defend the CDU's direct mandate in Reinickendorf this year.
Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey wants to go the way from federal to state politics.
She was nominated by the SPD state executive as a top candidate for the election to the House of Representatives and is applying as a direct candidate in Neukölln, where she was district mayor until 2018.
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Kai Wegner, who has been a member of the Bundestag and CDU state chairman for many years, is also running this time in the House of Representatives election.
Whereby he is like his competitor Giffey: His real goal is the Berlin City Hall, where the governing mayors have their official seat.
Quite a few experienced MPs will not run for the state parliament again in the fall because they are withdrawing from politics.
This also applies to Senators Dilek Kalayci (SPD / Health) and Sandra Scheeres (SPD / Education).
Others aspire to the House of Representatives for the first time.
The better-known names include Reinickendorf's district mayor Frank Balzer (CDU) and the state chairman of the Greens, Werner Graf.
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State election committee for elections in 2021