Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans were confirmed as leaders of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Friday at the beginning of the party's three-day conference in Berlin. Esken won a 75.9% share of the vote, while new co-leader Walter-Borjans received 89.2%. The pair were initially elected by the party's 400,000 members last week, but that ...

Dec 02, 2019 · Walter-Borjans comes from a craftsman family - the father was a carpenter, the mother a seamstress. Saskia Esken Until her candidacy for the SPD leadership, Saskia Esken was rather unknown to the wider public.

Oct 30, 2021 · SPD: Walter-Borjans announces withdrawal - Scholz's plan is apparently in place. With the decision, the Social Democrats are likely to have new personnel debates - and possibly also a dispute over the direction. Walter-Borjans and Esken are considered to be much more left-wing than the candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz *.

Dec 01, 2019 · Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans won the vote. It is a sensational victory over Olaf Scholz. Nevertheless, the SPD has failed with this path. The thing was too big, the consequences were not balanced. In the future, there should not only be a chairman, but a dual leadership, namely two partners, who also run jointly. All candidates ...

Dec 06, 2019 · S askia Esken and Norbert Walter Borjans are the new party leaders of the SPD. At the party congress in Berlin, the Bundestag deputy from Baden-Wuerttemberg received 75.9 percent of the vote, while the former finance minister from North Rhine-Westphalia selected 89.2 percent of the 626 delegates.

Norbert Walter-Borjans (born 17 September 1952) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as co-leader of the SPD (alongside Saskia Esken) from 2019 to 2021. He served as State Minister of Finance of …