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Spiesen-Elversberg (dpa) - Foreign Minister Heiko Maas heads the SPD's state list in Saarland for the federal election in autumn.
The 54-year-old was chosen on Saturday at a state party conference in a football stadium in Spiesen-Elversberg on the list, as a party spokesman announced.
Josphine Ortleb, Christian Petry, Emily Vontz and Esra Limbacher follow on the other places.
The Social Democrats put up a total of 15 candidates for the election on September 26th.
In the previous federal election in 2017, two SPD politicians made it onto the state list in Saarland, and the party also won one of four direct mandates.
At that time, a total of ten candidates from various parties made it to the Berlin parliament.
Because of the corona pandemic, the Saar-SPD had moved the party conference to a football stadium.
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The former Saarland SPD leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Maas was first elected to the Bundestag in 2017.
He was also put up again as a direct candidate in constituency 297 / Saarlouis on Saturday.
There could be another duel with his cabinet colleague, CDU Economics Minister Peter Altmaier.
Altmaier announced in February that he wanted to compete again in his home district.
In 2017 Maas lost the fight for the direct mandate in the constituency against Altmaier and then moved into the Bundestag via the SPD state list.
Altmaier had already won the direct mandate for the CDU in 2009 and 2013.
Both Saarlanders were born in the district.
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