Overview

• At the Landshut party congress, Ronja Endres was confirmed with 86% and Sebastian Roloff won 74.4%, with no opposing candidates.
• Endres urged a focus on practical concerns such as housing, care and schools, setting a goal of moving the party back into double digits.
• Roloff, 42, serves in the Bundestag as the SPD’s economic-policy spokesman, is associated with the party’s left wing and previously worked at IG Metall and MAN.
• Pollack, an Ansbach city councilor, and Kirschstein, the mayor of Forchheim, were elected as the party’s two generalsecretaries.
• The leadership shuffle follows years of decline, including 8.4% in the last Bavarian state election, with outgoing Ruth Müller and Nasser Ahmed stepping aside after taking over in 2023 following Arif Tasdelen’s resignation over internal misconduct allegations.