Overview
- Regional outlets report that CDU state leader and economics minister Sven Schulze plans to seek the Landtag’s election as minister-president at the end of January.
- The reports say incumbent Reiner Haseloff intends to relinquish the office beforehand after deciding not to run in the September state election.
- CDU state general secretary Mario Zeising declined to confirm the timeline when asked in Magdeburg.
- According to the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, leadership meetings of the CDU, SPD and FDP were planned for Monday to align on the vote, a detail Zeising did not verify.
- Schulze was chosen in November as the CDU’s lead candidate for the 6 September vote and currently serves as the state’s economics minister and party chief.