Magdalena Wagner (29) from Egmating is the SPD’s Bundestag candidate for the Ebersberg-Erding constituency. When it was set up, it mainly campaigned for more social justice.
Ebersberg – The delegates of the SPD district associations Ebersberg and Erding made a clear decision at the weekend: They want to go into the federal election campaign in 2021 with Magdalena Wagner as their candidate. The 29-year-old received a convincing 98 percent vote at the nomination meeting in the Ebersberger Sparkassensaal on Friday evening. There was only one vote against the high school teacher from Egmating, who also works as a school psychologist.
The Upper Bavarian district chairwoman of the Young Socialists has political experience on several levels. “Ending poverty, improving education, preserving the environment” is what she called the most important goals of her political commitment.
“I think it’s really great that we can see each other today,” said the acting district chairwoman Doris Rauscher welcomed the 45 delegates from the two districts of the Bundestag electoral district 213. Together with her colleague from Erdingen, Gertrud Eichinger, she led the meeting. The participants had to adhere to numerous hygiene rules so that this face-to-face event could even take place. The message was solidarity despite the distance.
For the SPD in the Bundestag? – It’s not impossible here in the constituency
What are Wagner’s chances of actually moving into the Bundestag for the SPD? Ebersberg MP Ewald Schurer, who sat on the important budget committee for the Social Democrats, has proven that this is not hopeless even in a predominantly conservative constituency. “Unfortunately, he left us far too early,” said Rauscher, before the delegates rose to observe a minute’s silence for the MP, who died in 2017. He had managed to keep an eye on both districts in his work. In the eyes of the comrades, he has obviously not worn out as a figure of identification.
It was elected at the nomination meeting in the Ebersberger Sparkassensaal in compliance with a hygiene concept.
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In her inaugural address, Wagner, eloquently, openly and routinely led the participants through the goals and priorities of their political ideas, which have their roots in local politics. She sits for the SPD in the Egmatinger local council and acts there as youth representative. At the district level, she is active as the chairwoman of the Young Socialists.
Anger over widening gap between rich and poor in the pandemic
The corona pandemic “made many difficulties in our society even more obvious,” said Wagner. During the pandemic, many people lost their jobs and they were therefore significantly more at risk of poverty than before – “at the same time, the richest of the rich were able to expand their wealth even further. I find that so unfair that it really makes me angry, ”confessed the egmatist.
It should no longer be the case that people need several jobs to be able to stay afloat. “It should no longer be the case that children and young people in the household or in the care of people have to take on tasks that go far beyond what is appropriate for their age because their parents have to work and otherwise it is not affordable.”
Magdalena Wagner stands for the SPD and promotes new ideas and fairer redistribution
In order to end poverty, those who have a lot of money should also be asked to pay: “A wealth tax is long overdue. And: It doesn’t really hurt anyone, ”said the SPD candidate for a fairer redistribution. Children and young people must be given a perspective out of poverty. This includes “improving their educational opportunities”. Everyone must have the opportunity to obtain a professional qualification.
According to Wagner, the pandemic has shown “that there are many more paths than those that have been followed up to then. That is by far not enough, but it might help if new ideas come up and these can no longer be dismissed with a succinct, ‘That doesn’t work because it doesn’t work’. “
Doris Rauscher, member of the SPD state parliament, disinfecting the microphone.
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“Like no other party, the SPD stands for a strong welfare state – how important this is is shown above all by the crises,” agreed the Ebersberg SPD member of the state parliament, Rauscher. “Nobody needs to be afraid of being left alone in a difficult situation with us,” she promised.
The constituency board
The delegates elected to the federal constituency board: Chairwoman Gertrud Eichinger (ED), Deputy Albert Hingerl, Doris Rauscher, Ulla Diekmann (ED), Secretary Heiner Müller-Ehrmann (ED), and Treasurer Markus Brennhäuser (EBE).
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