In a survey by YouGov, the Union is the strongest force in Germany. The Greens, on the other hand, are at record lows.
Berlin – The Greens have problems within the party. After the announced resignation of the leadership duo Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, the youth of the Greens followed suit. At the end of September, the federal executive board of the Green Youth announced that it would not run again and would resign from the party as a whole – in protest against the course that the party had taken since the founding of the traffic light coalition with the SPD and FDP. The aim is to found a new left-wing youth association. After the board, the state leaders of the youth organization also resigned in numerous federal states, including Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
CDU/CSU strongest force in survey – Greens in the basement
The poll numbers don’t bode well for the Greens either. In a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, 32 percent of German citizens who are eligible to vote said they would vote for the CDU/CSU if there were a federal election next Sunday. This value is identical to the previous month of September. The SPD achieved 16 percent in October (cf. 14 percent in the previous month). The Greens ended up at 11 percent (compare 13 percent in the previous month of September). “This is the lowest value for the party in the entire period since the last federal election in 2021,” said the polling institute. The Greens had already been defeated by the electorate in the state elections in three eastern German states. In Thuringia and Brandenburg the party is no longer represented in the state parliament, but in Saxony it was barely able to gain entry.
The majority sees no damage to the Greens because of resignations
However, those surveyed also believed that the resignations of the entire federal executive board of the Greens, including party leaders Lang and Nouripour and the youth organizations, would not harm the party. “. When asked whether the resignations will harm or benefit the Greens as a party in the long term, Germans most often answer with ‘no impact’ (36 percent). 30 percent say the resignations will benefit the Greens, 17 percent say they will harm the party,” YouGov said in its statement.
The opinions of the youngest respondents aged 18 to 29 seem to particularly stand out. 42 percent are of the opinion that the resignations of the Federal Executive Board will benefit the Greens. 21 percent of this age group believe that the resignations will harm the party and 22 percent of 18 to 29 year olds believe that it will have no impact.
Green youth organization in Baden-Württemberg with new leadership
The youth organization of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg has now elected a new leader. The former local politician Tamara Stoll (25) and the previous political director Tim Bühler (24) were elected as state chairmen at the state members’ meeting. As the youth organization announced, both stand for a new start and a reflection on the Greens’ core issues of climate and environmental protection. Stoll and Bühl follow Elly Reich, who gave up this role after two years, and Anne Mann, who was in office for one year.
Green MPs make accusations of racism against their own party
But there are also rumblings among the Greens after the resignations. The directly elected Berlin Green MP from Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Canan Bayram, apparently no longer wants to run in the next federal election. The reason is the political course, the debate culture and racism in your own district association. “There is a climate of fear internally,” she told the Daily Mirror. Bayram previously stated that she no longer knew what exactly the Greens actually stood for.
“Despite ‘racist incidents’ in the district association, there has so far been no initiative against it. She did not want to say exactly what the incidents were. Just that: It’s about the district board,” he writes Daily Mirror. However, the Greens reject the allegations. There is no culture of debate free of discrimination in the district association. Kübra Beydas, a member of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district executive committee, spoke of a “personal alienation from the party”.
Söder is calling for new elections and resignations from Habeck and Baerbock
There are also demands for the Greens from the opposition. In view of the severe economic downturn in Germany, CSU leader Markus Söder is calling for new elections and the immediate resignation of Green Federal Ministers Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock. The traffic light government is “in a political coma, so new elections as quickly as possible would be the right way,” said Söder Picture from Thursday. “Medically, one would say that this coalition is clinically dead, nothing is happening anymore.” The CSU chairman described the Green Federal Ministers Habeck (Economy) and Baerbock (Foreign Affairs) as the “faces of the crisis”. “These are the protagonists. They have to resign.” The Greens “are pandering to the Union in an almost embarrassing way – and the SPD also has these similar signs of disintegration,” said Söder.
Söder categorically rules out a black-green coalition at the federal level after the next election. However, a few days ago, CSU vice-president Manfred Weber warned against rejecting such an alliance now. “That is a minority opinion,” said Söder. “But the matter will not be decided in Brussels, but in Bavaria and Berlin,” he added. Weber works as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. (erpe/dpa/AFP)
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