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The Vice President of the European Parliament, Katarina Barley, is leading the SPD as the top candidate in the European elections on June 9th. She was elected with 98.66 percent of the vote at a delegate conference in Berlin. There were 147 yes votes and only two no votes. Barley accepted the election. The 55-year-old was already the top candidate in the last European elections in 2019, when the SPD achieved its worst result to date in a nationwide election with 15.8 percent. She told the German Press Agency before the delegate conference that she wanted to significantly improve the result. However, she did not name a specific target. “I don’t believe in painting numbers on the wall at all.”