Steinmeier is currently supported by CDU, CSU, SPD, Greens and FDP - hence likely to garner around 1106 out of 1260 votes.
Left has chosen Christoph Butterwegge for candidate, Pirates and PARTEI have chosen a joint candidate in PARTEI's party head's father Engelbert Sonneborn. With Alexander Hold (supported by FW and BVB-FW) and Albrecht Glaser (AfD) that makes for five candidates. Butterwegge will probably get around 95 votes, Glaser around 35 and Hold and Sonneborn each up to 11.
Pirates and PARTEI were supposedly considering nominating Murat Kurnaz - a Turkish-German who was held in Guantanamo for four years - for a short while out of protest against Steinmeier; Kurnaz is too young for the office though (minimum age 40). Kurnaz and Steinmeier have carried out some personal animosity in public for the past ten years since Kurnaz' release.
Only party that hasn't chosen a candidate is the Danish minority party SSW, which holds a single seat.
The electoral council deputies of Northrhine-Westfalia (135 delegates) were legally disputed. A ex-Pirate independent in the state parliament filed for a possible violation of the constitution since the list of delegates was voted on openly instead of secretly, thus enforcing party discipline. Pretty minor squabble though.
Left has chosen Christoph Butterwegge for candidate, Pirates and PARTEI have chosen a joint candidate in PARTEI's party head's father Engelbert Sonneborn. With Alexander Hold (supported by FW and BVB-FW) and Albrecht Glaser (AfD) that makes for five candidates. Butterwegge will probably get around 95 votes, Glaser around 35 and Hold and Sonneborn each up to 11.
Pirates and PARTEI were supposedly considering nominating Murat Kurnaz - a Turkish-German who was held in Guantanamo for four years - for a short while out of protest against Steinmeier; Kurnaz is too young for the office though (minimum age 40). Kurnaz and Steinmeier have carried out some personal animosity in public for the past ten years since Kurnaz' release.
Only party that hasn't chosen a candidate is the Danish minority party SSW, which holds a single seat.
The electoral council deputies of Northrhine-Westfalia (135 delegates) were legally disputed. A ex-Pirate independent in the state parliament filed for a possible violation of the constitution since the list of delegates was voted on openly instead of secretly, thus enforcing party discipline. Pretty minor squabble though.
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