When it comes to Caren Miosga, Foreign Minister Baerbock narrowly admits that the federal election campaign did not go well for her. After the Green Party reorganization, Habeck should take over.
Berlin – With a curt “yes”, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) admitted her failure as the Greens’ candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election in an interview with ARD-Talk presenter Caren Miosga on Sunday evening. The moderator asked her whether Baerbock’s obligations as Foreign Minister were a “bad or good excuse” not to run for the Green Party’s top candidacy again. The chief diplomat evaded. Miosga asked, and this was followed by a concession to Economics Minister Robert Habeck, who is supposed to lead the Greens in the next election campaign.
Greens in the 2025 federal election: Miosga won’t let Baerbock’s commitments be used as an excuse
Miosga did not want to use Baerbock’s official obligations as an argument against another top candidacy in the 2025 federal election. The Foreign Minister made her renunciation in an interview with the US broadcaster CNN justified. Miosga asked whether she couldn’t simply admit that things didn’t go “so well” under her leadership in the 2021 federal election and that now “the other one” – i.e. Habeck – is taking over for that reason. Baerbock said yes.
After the election debacle in East Germany: Greens are repositioning themselves – old disputes are breaking out again
Baerbock’s concession to Habeck is part of a programmatic and personnel realignment of the Greens. After the defeats in the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the federal executive board, including the two party leaders Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang, resigned as a whole. In Brandenburg and Thuringia the party missed out on entering the state parliaments – in Saxony it was only just enough.
The Greens were in power in Thuringia and Saxony before the election. In surveys, the party is back in single digits for the first time in years. The wing battles between the ‘Realos’, who were committed to rapprochement with the bourgeois camp, and the remaining left-wing ‘Fundis’ broke out more openly again. The federal executive board of the Green Youth resigned as a whole and left the party.
Former leader of the Green Youth wants to start a new political project
The former leader of the Green Party now wants to organize itself into a political project that openly addresses the question of distribution and “finally puts the economy at the service of the people,” as it said in the resignation statement. When it comes to the Greens’ government work, those who left expressly criticized the excavation of the town of Lützerath for open-cast coal mining, the special fund for the Bundeswehr, the tightening of asylum laws and the austerity policy of the traffic light.
Despite criticism from the youth association, observers currently assume that the Greens will rally behind Habeck as the top candidate at their next party conference. Franziska Brantner, State Secretary in Habeck’s ministry, is considered a promising candidate for party leadership.
Former Federal Managing Director sees too many minimal compromises in the traffic lights
The resigned Federal Managing Director Emily Büning said in an interview with our editorial team that her party had “too often made compromises based on the lowest common denominator” in the traffic light coalition with the SPD and FPD. Such compromises could come back to the Greens in the fall: Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FPD) insisted in an interview with Munich Mercurythat the traffic light coalition should continue to commit itself to the debt brake. A demand that recently met with criticism, particularly from Economics Minister Habeck, who wants to finance the climate-neutral restructuring of the economy with debt. (kb)
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