Alexander Schweitzer will quickly take up the place of Prime Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Picture: dpa | Helmut Fricke
Malu Dreyer’s resignation from the workplace of Chief Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinate appears to have been ready for a while. As a result of her successor has been determined and appears to have been nicely thought out: the present Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Alexander Schweitzer, will take over the job. The persona is no surprise; he’s thought of Dreyer’s most popular candidate as a result of, like her, he’s common within the get together and well-connected. Within the election of the vice chairman of the state, Landauer, 50 years outdated, achieved the perfect end result.
Schweitzer is just not missing in expertise both: the lawyer was already politically lively at a younger age, for instance as state vice-chairman or head of state Juso. He has been knowledgeable politician for 18 years – in 2006 he entered the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate for the primary time. In 2011, Schweitzer grew to become State Secretary within the Ministry of Financial Affairs and the Rhineland-Palatinate. From 2013 to 2014, Malu Dreyer took him into his first cupboard as Minister of Labour. From 2021, Schweitzer is once more Minister of Labour, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitalization within the Rhineland-Palatinate. Its principal subjects: sustaining hospitals in rural areas, a quota of rural medical doctors to make sure well being care, and sustainable mobility.
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Schweitzer spent the primary years of his youth on freighters between Karlsruhe and Rotterdam as a result of his father was an inland boatman. He now has three kids of his personal and is vegan.
The SPD member now has a couple of 12 months and a half to claim himself in workplace earlier than the subsequent state elections within the spring of 2026.
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