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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The member of the state parliament Marc Ruland from Andernach is to become the new general secretary of the SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate.
State party leader Roger Lewentz announced that he would propose the 39-year-old at the digital party congress that evening.
The previous Secretary General Daniel Stich will in future be a ministerial director in the new Ministry of Science and Health of the state government.
However, he is running as treasurer for the new SPD state executive as successor to Dieter Feid.
In addition, there will probably be no further changes in the SPD state leadership, said the party.
Lewentz wants to be state chairman again.
Finance Minister Doris Ahnen, the outgoing parliamentary group leader and future minister Alexander Schweitzer and the President of the State Parliament, Hendrik Hering, are again standing for election as deputy state chairpersons.
Ruland knows the regional association inside out, said Lewentz.
This is "despite his young age of not even forty years an experienced local and state politician".
As chairman of the SPD and the SPD city council faction in Andernach, the SPD district association Mayen-Koblenz and a long-time member of the state parliament, Ruland knows exactly how social democratic politics work in and for Rhineland-Palatinate.
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The designated general secretary announced that he wanted to make the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate "continue to be as strong as we know it".
"It is important to me to rely on the public spirit and cohesion of our party in my work," said Ruland.
"That cohesion makes us strong is exactly what I have been seeing every day in local politics for years."
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The state parliament on Marc Ruland