The SPD’s nomination meeting for constituency 281 (Freiburg) took place in the open air on Saturday. All votes went to the only candidate: Julia Sons.
“Thank you for 100 percent of the votes” Julia Söhne posted – with many, many pictures – on Instagram when the SPD district associations in Freiburg and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald met her as a candidate for the direct mandate at an open-air nomination meeting in the Ganter house beer garden on Saturday afternoon in constituency 281 (Freiburg) for the federal election on September 26th. The 27-year-old political scientist has been chairwoman of the SPD and Kulturliste parliamentary group in the Freiburg municipal council since 2019. It was the fourth attempt at the meeting, which had previously been postponed three times due to corona. Sons was the only applicant, she received all 43 votes cast. She is applying for a seat in the Bundestag for the first time. In 2017 Julien Bender stood for the SPD and received 22.7 percent of the vote, which was enough for third place after Matern von Marschall (CDU) and Kerstin Andreae (Greens), but not for a Bundestag mandate. In addition to the entire city of Freiburg, constituency 281 also includes 19 of the total of 50 municipalities in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in the west and south of Freiburg. “We are going into the next election campaign with great support for Julia Söhne and a lot of enthusiasm”, Viviane Sigg, who heads the Freiburg district association with Bender, is quoted in the press release on the outcome of the meeting. For Bender, Söhne is “a candidate who convincingly embodies progressive positions”. Her nomination speech dealt, among other things, with the topics of care and health policy, the compatibility of family and work as well as the commitment to affordable housing. Above all, however, is the fight against climate change.
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