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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The Berlin Left moves with Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer in the election campaign for the House of Representatives in autumn.
At a party conference on Saturday, 87.6 percent of the delegates voted the 47-year-old politician to be number one on the state list.
There were 113 votes in favor, 14 against and 2 abstentions.
"You have already beaten Franzi," commented party chairman Katina Schubert, referring to the SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey, who had 85.7 percent at the SPD party conference on Saturday.
Lederer has repeatedly called for the red-red-green coalition to continue after the election on September 26th.
At the start of the party congress on Friday, he advocated taking Berliners along with climate protection and the traffic turnaround, relying more on conviction than on coercive measures.
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The left-wing politician and doctorate in law, who led the party in the 2016 election campaign, was nominated as a top candidate by the party's state board in December.
Lederer is one of the party's most experienced and well-known politicians and polls regularly get high sympathy ratings.
Born in Schwerin, he moved into the House of Representatives in 2003 at the age of 29, to which he belonged until 2017.
From 2005 to 2016 he was state chairman of his party, which was initially still called the PDS.
The Left emerged from the 2016 parliamentary elections as the third strongest party behind the SPD, CDU and just ahead of the Greens.
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Information about the party congress