Greens rely on a new beginning: Brantner and Banaszak as favorites!

Greens rely on a new beginning: Brantner and Banaszak as favorites!

Wiesbaden, Deutschland - Wiesbaden - The Greens are facing a decisive party congress on Saturday, which is supposed to give the starting signal for their election campaign for the Bundestag election. With Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak as undisputed favorites for the co-party chairman after the previous duo Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour have removed prematurely, the mood is charged. Minister of Culture Claudia Roth called on the more than 800 delegates to lead a "bright green" election campaign that will take place "in wind, weather, ice and snow".

The focus of the party conference is ten applications that support the basis of the Greens. These include, among other things, the reintroduction of a wealth tax, the demand for a speed limit and a more liberal migration policy. An application that rejects current inpatient controls at the German land borders is particularly controversial. Roth took the opportunity to describe Markus Söder as a "fire accelerator", who constantly against the green agitation while emphasizing the challenges of the upcoming election.

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Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck made it clear that the Greens should not deal with the past of the traffic light government. He emphasized the role of the Greens, which should give the country orientation. Annalena Baerbock, Foreign Minister, described the party congress as a place of "strength tank" before the strenuous election campaign. The Greens had set up a candidate for chancellor in 2021 and achieved 14.8 percent of the vote. For the upcoming election, Habeck should compete as a "candidate for people in Germany", even if the word "Chancellor candidate" does not appear in the application.

The delegates showed solidarity with Ukraine and the fight against the Russian attack war. A delegate who did not feel threatened, but met with little approval. The co-boss of the Green Youth, Jette Nietzard, criticized the asylum law enhancements and expressed himself sharply against the CDU boss Friedrich Merz. The party congress is intended to develop a concise program for the Bundestag election, whereby the delegates are supposed to come together in full strength on January 26th.