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Ulli Nissen will not move into the Bundestag a third time for the Frankfurt SPD. On the other hand, Kaweh Mansoori should have good chances.
Ulli Nissen makes no secret of her disappointment. The housing politician would have liked to try for the fifth time to win the direct mandate in constituency 183 for the SPD. But in the vote on Saturday, the delegates clearly decided on Kaweh Mansoori, a lawyer, SPD district leader and almost 30 years younger than them.
“I’m sad, but I’m not giving up,” says Ulli Nissen, who moved into the Bundestag in 2013 and 2017 via her party’s state list, on Monday. “I will continue to fight on the side of the tenants.” But that will only be extra-parliamentary, she clarifies. In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau, the 61-year-old ironed out the idea that she could try to get a good place on the state list despite her defeat as “nonsense”. That is out of the question at all.
SPD Frankfurt: Ulli Nissen wants to be a fair loser
Nissen does not believe that her earlier voluntary work as an auditor for the Frankfurt AWO district association played a role for some of the delegates who voted for Mansoori on Saturday. At least she wasn’t asked about it. She rather suspects that the desire for a generation change was the decisive factor in some. There is also disappointment. After all, Frankfurt is “young and male, but also older and female”.
At the same time, it is important to Nissen to be a fair loser. Shortly after her defeat, she offered Mansoori support and explicitly praised him. He is an excellent politician who will achieve a lot for the workers in Germany with his socio-political expertise.
Kaweh Mansoori could get into the Bundestag via the state list
Mansoori thinks he has a good chance of winning the eastern of the two constituencies over to the SPD for the first time since 2002. It should be anything but easy against the Bundestag member Bettina Wiesmann (CDU), who won in 2017, and Omid Nouripour (Greens). Mansoori still predicts a close race.
Kaweh Mansoori wants to conquer constituency 183 for the SPD in the federal election.
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Even if the 32-year-old does not decide the constituency for himself, he should have a good chance of being elected to the Bundestag in September. After all, there is much to suggest that the head of the Hessen-Süd district will be elected to a safe place on the list at the SPD state party conference on June 19.
Armand Zorn wants to win the direct mandate in the West for the SPD
But that also means that Armand Zorn, who prevailed on Sunday in the fight for the direct mandate in constituency 182 against Lino Leudesdorff, has rather bad cards for a good place on the state list. That the state SPD considers two Frankfurters with promising places is not to be expected. Especially since these are likely to be very scarce. As early as 2017, only twelve Hessian social democrats entered the Bundestag: five because they won their constituency, seven via the state list. Nissen was in 6th place, Oliver Strank, then a candidate in the West, in the hopeless place 25.
Armand Zorn runs in constituency 182 for the Frankfurt SPD in the federal election.
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“It will be about winning as many direct mandates as possible,” says Mansoori. Zorn has already stated that as a clear goal. The 32-year-old management consultant, a digitization expert, would have to assert himself against Axel Kaufmann (CDU) and Deborah Düring (Greens), who, like him, are competing for the first time.
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