Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is the SPD's top candidate for the Hessian state elections on October 8th. She wants to remain Minister of the Interior. She informed her employees in a letter that is available to WELT. The letter said: "I know that many of you are wondering whether I will apply for the post of Prime Minister in my home country of Hesse in October. And it's important to me that you find out from me: Yes, I'm running for office. I am the first woman to head the Federal Ministry of the Interior - and I would like to be the first female Prime Minister in Hesse. And you know me: I compete to win.”
According to Faeser, she wanted to create "clarity from the start": If the "voters decide differently in the democratic competition, I will continue to fulfill my responsibility as Federal Minister of the Interior".
In a democracy it is a matter of course that candidates also "run for elections from offices". “The times are too serious for a long election campaign anyway. The effects of the terrible Russian war of aggression against Ukraine continue to concern us very much.” She also wants to “implement the diverse reforms that we have undertaken with the coalition agreement”.