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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The North Rhine-Westphalian SPD parliamentary group leader Thomas Kutschaty has also been confirmed as the new chairman of the largest SPD state association by postal vote with a high result.
After counting all postal votes, Kutschaty received 92.01 percent, the SPD regional association announced on Tuesday.
In the electronic vote at the digital party congress on March 6, the 52-year-old Essen politician and former state minister of justice came to 90.5 percent.
However, fewer votes were received for postal voting than for electronic voting.
357 delegates voted in writing for Kutschaty and 28 against him.
There were three abstentions.
In the electronic vote, there were a total of 442 valid votes.
Kutschaty had 400 yes-votes and 33 no-votes.
Nine delegates abstained.
The lawyer Kutschaty was nominated by the NRW state board as a top candidate for the NRW state election in 2022.
Since the red-green coalition was voted out of office in 2017, the NRW-SPD has plunged into a survey low of currently 17 percent.
The head of the country, Sebastian Hartmann, who has been in office since 2018, had refused to run again after a month-long power struggle with Kutschaty.
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After Michael Groschek and the Bundestag member Hartmann, Kutschaty is the third party leader of the NRW-SPD since the defeat in the state elections in 2017 and the resignation of Hannelore Kraft.
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