The German Greens are meeting this weekend at a congress in Wiesbaden, in the west of Germany. Three months before the next legislative elections, they will try to line up with the objective of sitting in the next coalition, even if the polls are currently not encouraging. The new leadership of the party will have to try to bring together the right and left wings of the formation around candidate Robert Habeck.
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With our correspondent in Berlin, Nathalie Versieux
Olaf Scholz’s Green Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, will head the campaign list. It is therefore a Realoas we call here the supporters of pragmatism within the party, whose mission will be to raise the Greens in the polls. Mission all the more difficult since Habeck is the unfortunate author of a bill on clean heating, which contributed to the explosion of the extreme right in Germany over the last few years.
“ We must be able to work together »
But Habeck also has some strengths. It would be easier for the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) leading in the polls to agree to form a coalition with him, than with a representative of the left wing of the party. Andreas Audretsch leads the Greens’ campaign for the Bundestag: “ With the conservatives, we of course have differences, but there are also subjects on which we can talk well together. And that’s the main thing: to be tough on substance, to say clearly where we disagree, while knowing that we are democrats, and that we must be able to work together. »
But the Greens are far from the door to power. According to the state of the polls, the Christian Democrats should win the vote, and form a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD).
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