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SPD politicians announced a few months ago that they would withdraw from parliament after the federal elections.
Sedan. According to information from the German Press Agency, the Vice President of the German Bundestag, Thomas Oppermann, passed away completely unexpectedly. RTL and ntv had previously reported the death of the SPD politician. Consequently, the 66-year-old collapsed on Sunday night while working on television with ZDF and was taken to hospital.
Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) was deeply shocked Monday on Twitter. The news of Oppermann’s sudden death filled him with deep sadness, he wrote. “Thomas has served our country and Social Democracy excellently with passion and understanding.”
He announced in August that he would no longer run for election.
Lower Saxony Oppermann announced at the end of August that it would not run again in the next federal elections. “After 30 years as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and the German Bundestag, now is the right time to do something different and undertake new projects,” he said.
Oppermann was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 2013 to 2017. He won his constituency of Göttingen four times in a row. More recently, the 66-year-old campaigned for a reduction in the Bundestag and a reform of the electoral law.
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