Party convention and new election: Cem Özdemir warns in opposition to defamatory election campaigns | EUROtoday

Around 100 days earlier than the brand new Bundestag elections, the Greens wish to begin the election marketing campaign this weekend with a transparent dedication to Robert Habeck’s candidacy for chancellor. The Federal Delegates Conference, which opened on Friday afternoon in Wiesbaden, has acquired a proposal from the get together govt committee wherein the Federal Minister of Economics and Vice Chancellor is touted as a “candidate for the people of Germany”. “Robert Habeck has what it takes to be a good Chancellor,” says the paper, for which the Green Party management expects a broad majority.

It could be the second time within the get together’s historical past that the Greens would go right into a federal election with their very own candidate for chancellor. However, the prospects for the election, which is anticipated to happen on February 23, 2025, are considerably worse than in 2021. While the get together was nonetheless at 22 p.c within the polls three months earlier than the election, it’s at present solely at ten to 12 p.c. The end in September 2021 was 14.8 p.c. The Greens additionally wish to elect a brand new get together govt in Wiesbaden. The successors to the earlier prime duo Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour shall be State Secretary within the Federal Ministry of Economics Franziska Brantner and Bundestag member Felix Banaszak.

Even earlier than the get together convention started, former Green Party chief and incumbent Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir warned each his personal get together and the CDU/CSU in opposition to a defamatory federal election marketing campaign. “If we want there to still be democratic majorities in the center in the future, then we as democratic parties and politicians should not declare each other the greatest evil,” stated Özdemir to WELT AM SONNTAG. Where such a path may lead can at present be seen in Saxony, the place there isn’t any prospect of a steady authorities majority even two months after the election.

There, CDU Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer closely criticized the then coalition accomplice within the state election marketing campaign and dominated out a brand new coalition with the Greens. Addressing his personal get together, Özdemir stated: “Calling the chairman of the CDU a racist is the same song. Only Putin and his governors in Germany are happy about this erosion of democratic culture.” The Greens, which can even be debated at this fiftieth Federal Delegates Conference, wish to maintain the trail to a black-green coalition open within the election marketing campaign.

The FDP is responsible for the site visitors lights being turned off

In one other get together convention movement, signed by, amongst others, Habeck himself and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the Greens blame the Free Democrats for the breakup of the site visitors gentle coalition. “Christian Lindner and the FDP have thrown away their responsibility for party tactical reasons,” it says, referring to the failed negotiations on the 2025 federal price range and the so-called financial transition paper. It was revealed by the FDP the week earlier than the coalition collapsed.

Speculation that was fueled once more this week by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The home, which was led by FDP chief Lindner till his dismissal, initially refused to reply the query concerning the precise time when the 18-page paper was created. Its depth of element had fueled the suspicion that the previous finance minister had had it ready at size in his ministry – in order that he might pull it out on the proper second in coalition talks.

After a lawsuit from WELT AM SONNTAG, the ministry defined in a written submission to the Berlin Administrative Court that the paper was primarily based on beforehand developed ideas “obviously from the minister’s immediate circle, including the minister’s personal advisors in the BMF (Federal Ministry of Finance, editor) or the State Secretaries”. The ministry additionally introduced that “there is no information available on the question of who exactly had been involved with the concept paper for how long and for how long”. A survey of the ministry’s administration workers didn’t present any additional info on this matter.

Correspondent Ulrich Exner At WELT, he’s primarily liable for the northern German states.

Political editor Claus Christian Malzahn is liable for reporting on the Greens. He additionally stories from the japanese German states.