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  • Did you actually read the article?

    One of the Greens’ key problems is personnel. At their peak in 2021 they had two lead figures in Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who were widely regarded as pragmatists – a prerequisite for effective government in Germany’s compromise-oriented system

    The party elected a new leadership duo – Franziska Brantner, 45, and Felix Banaszak, 35 – and new Green Youth leaders: the climate activist Jakob Blasel and the self-proclaimed “leftwing radical” Jette Nietzard.

    You could practically hear the collective sigh of relief at the top of the party when Nietzard announced that she wouldn’t run for the Green Youth leadership again this autumn. She has repeatedly alienated the centrist voter groups the Greens are trying to win back, appearing in clothing imprinted with the anti-police acronym “ACAB” and the anti-capitalist slogan “Eat the rich”. Last month she pondered whether resistance to any future government coalition containing the far-right AfD should be “intellectual or perhaps with weapons”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/08/green-party-politics-germany

    It’s not about policies. It’s about not saying stupid shit.

    You don’t get elected by saying stupid shit to only appeal to your base.