“Green Party decides for governing qualification”
The party vote for the Greens’ two frontrunners in the upcoming German federal elections has shown that the party’s rank and file opt for a pragmatic approach instead of defending green vanguard positions, Cordula Tutt writes in WirtschaftsWoche. By choosing the moderate Cem Özdemir as the party’s male complement to Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who had no competitors, the Greens have opened the door for a variety of coalitions, Tutt writes. But neither Özdemir nor Göring-Eckardt have any outstanding credentials regarding the green core topics of the Energiewende and nuclear exit, she explains. Tutt says it might therefore be helpful for the party to assign a central position to Robert Habeck, currently minister for the environment and energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, who lost the vote to become the party’s frontrunner by only a very small margin.
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For background, see the 淨 article German Greens to make coal exit, fossil car ban an election focus and the 淨 dossier Vote2017 – German elections and the Energiewende.