page_title: Frank Henkel
section_title: Senator of the Interior and Sports, 2011–2016
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Henkel / Political career / Senator of the Interior and Sports, 2011–2016
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Frank Henkel bei der Landesmitgliederversammlung der CDU Berlin English: Frank Henkel at the general meeting of the CDU Berlin
context_page_description: Frank Henkel is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Since 1 December 2011 he is a Mayor and Senator of the Interior and Sports of the German state of Berlin. From 2008 he was the opposition leader in the Abgeordnetenhaus, the state parliament of Berlin, in which he has been an MP since 31 October 2001. In 2011 he led the CDU back into the government as the junior partner in an SPD-led coalition.
context_section_description: In 2011 Henkel became frontrunner in the 2011 Berlin state elections and led the CDU back into the state government. In March 2016 he was nominated again as the leading candidate of the CDU for the 2016 Berlin state elections. As one of Berlin's representatives at the Bundesrat, Henkel was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the Defense Committee and the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
  In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Henkel was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Thomas Oppermann.
  Henkel again led his party in the 2016 state elections. Ahead of the vote, he regularly polled behind his Social Democrat counterpart, incumbent Mayor Michael Müller. His party ended up falling from 23 per cent in 2011 to 17.6 per cent, its lowest result in Berlin.
  Henkel was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.
caption: Frank Henkel in 2010
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