Green start with Robert Habeck Fulminant election campaign in Lübeck!

On Monday evening, January 6, 2025, the Greens started their nationwide election campaign in Lübeck. The queue in front of the music and congress hall occasionally extended over several hundred meters, and around 1,200 people had the opportunity to take part in the event.

The candidate for Chancellor Robert Habeck, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and co-party leader Felix Banaszak were among the speakers. Habeck described the latter as the right candidate for chancellor because he has the ability to solve problems. In addition, Banaszak criticized the Union's Chancellor candidate, Friedrich Merz, for the fact that he only described problems, and the incumbent Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) because he only marveled at them. According to ndr.de Habeck in the coming weeks will be increasingly in the dialogue with humans in the entire country want.

criticism of the political competition

In his speech,

Felix Banaszak also commented on the foreign policy naivety and lack of ideas of the political competition. In this context, he represented Robert Habeck as a problem solver. Annalena Baerbock also criticized Olaf Scholz's reaction to Elon Musk's verbal attacks. She recalled Scholz’s statement that in such cases you have to "remain cool" and compared this with his misjudgment regarding "Nord Stream 2". Banaszak and Baerbock emphasized that mistakes can occur occasionally, but the repeating of errors should be considered negligent, as well as zdf.de reported.

According to current surveys, the Greens are currently between 10 and 14 percent, which positions them behind the Union, the AfD and the SPD.