The Green Party will elect a new leader tomorrow, as the two co-chairs, Analena Burbock and Robert Hubbek, now serve in the government, with the first as Foreign Minister and the second as Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Climate Policy, which, according to the their statute is incompatible.
The candidates for the leadership of the Greens are now Ricarda Lang and Omid Nuripour, who are expected, unexpectedly, to be elected by a large majority of the delegates.
The big challenge the new leadership duo will face has to do with the party’s simultaneous participation in government. The outgoing duo bears a record percentage in federal parliamentary elections with 14.8% in 2021 and a record in the European elections of 2019 with 20.5%, but should be ready to accept criticism even from the party, especially under the pressure of environmental organizations that gather around him.
“The days without a contrary view are over,” Der Spiegel magazine writes, noting that despite their success, in the future Analena Berbock and Robert Habeck will have even less influence in the party, which will inevitably have to prepare for the election of 2025. “The issue of the Chancellery is not over for us, just because it did not work the first time,” outgoing party director Michael Kellner told Spiegel.
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