The Greens are repositioning themselves after the recent earthquake weeks. The party left consults and makes concrete demands of Habeck.
Berlin – What’s next for the Greens? After catastrophic election results and poll numbers as well as announced resignations of party leaders and federal youth association executives, leading Green politicians want to use the chaos as an opportunity for a new beginning. But there is a need to talk internally about how this should be done.
Left party members meet in Berlin: They make concrete demands
The resignations of Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour have to do with the electoral defeat, but the resignation of the federal executive committee of the Green Youth was justified by too little left-wing profile and too many traffic light compromises. The party left is now trying to reposition itself.
Participants in a nine-hour meeting of 250 left-wing party members in Berlin reported this Mirrorthat the new order is taking shape. There are said to have been no formal resolutions, but working groups are said to have discussed what was important to the party left. Realo Robert Habeck’s candidacy as top and chancellor candidate is said to have not been questioned, but there is a “clear expectation that he will also take what he sees as the more distant part of the party into consideration.”
Party leftists rumble against traffic light compromises: “We are no longer willing to hold our necks”
“We are no longer willing to stick our necks out for policies that we find wrong,” it said in a statement. They want to contribute “to ensuring that there can soon be a strong left-wing party in Germany”.
Does Realo Habeck like it? He recently expressed satisfaction with the reorganization of his party. The wings would be “really very close and very cohesive and work together.” In the party’s first years, Realos and Fundis, now known as the Left, fought bitterly against each other. Similar trench warfare should now be avoided.
Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth, co-party leader Ricarda Lang, co-parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge, Family Minister Lisa Paus, designated co-party leader Banaszak and parliamentary group deputy Andreas Audretsch spoke loudly Mirror-Information attended the meeting. He resigned Sven GiegoldParliamentary State Secretary in Habeck’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, surprisingly announced that he wanted to run for the office of political director of the party in November. Despite his connection to Habeck, he should also enjoy respect in the left wing.
Habeck and the path to becoming a candidate for chancellor
From Habeck’s point of view, the decision on the Greens’ candidacy for chancellor lies with the federal party conference. If he had his way, there would be a very honest debate in Wiesbaden about “who we want to be, what we did during our years in government, what we achieved and which people – and whether I can be one of the people who do this “The party will then lead forward in the next few years,” said Habeck on Wednesday evening in the “heute journal”. ZDF.
The resignation of the party leader is the starting point for a realignment of the Greens, said parliamentary group leader Britta Haßelmann. This paves the way for the line-up for the next election campaigns with new staff and a strategic discussion about the direction of the party, she said in the ARD out of. Of course, the party is in a serious situation, as Haßelmann admitted. What is now needed is clarity, calm and stability.
Lang rejects bullying rumors: “No, that’s not true”
The co-leader of the Green Party, Katharina Dröge, rejected calls from the Union for new elections. “I think this is a path that leads to chaos,” she said Deutschlandfunk. The largest country in the European Union must be governed stably in these times. Your party wants to start catching up. “And we combine that with a candidacy for chancellor,” said Dröge.
Nothing has been officially decided yet, but since Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock declared that she did not want to try again in 2021, Habeck has been considered set. Several well-connected party members reject speculation that Habeck bullied Nouripour and Lang away; after all, both of them always had Habeck’s back. Lang also rejected the speculation. “No, that’s not true,” she says in the ARD. It is inappropriate to act as if a young woman needed a string puller for such a decision. “I’ll make my decision on my own.”
Green youth is repositioning itself with Habeck confidant
The woman from the left wing of the party emphasized that the relationship with Realo Habeck was still characterized by collegial cooperation. At the same time, she warned her party not to neglect the team spirit in order to rely only on a single strong man at the top. “I think that would be the wrong approach.” Overall, there has been criticism of the work of Political Director Emily Büning.
It is not yet clear who wants to run for party leadership in November. However, the best chances for co-chairmanship are given to Bundestag members Felix Banaszak and Franziska Brantner. Banaszak is considered to be on the left wing. Brantner has long played a leading role in the “Realos”. For Brantner, becoming party chairman would probably mean that she would have to vacate her place as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics.
The former political director of the Greens, Michael Kellner, is now also Parliamentary State Secretary in the same ministry. He sees one reason for his party’s current crisis in the shift in topics. “That’s our problem, that the climate issue, for example, doesn’t get the attention it needs,” he says World TV. (cgsc with dpa)
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