German politician
Photo: Stefan Kaufmann (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
Robin Mesarosch and Sebastian Roloff, the SPD chiefs of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, back excluding the former chancellor, while Greens co-chair Franziska Brantner demands new proceedings. The SPD Upper Palatinate district has adopted a motion calling for the same step.