Should the Union stagger in the election campaign - the Greens would probably have the best chances for the Chancellery.
The party is on the offensive.
Up front: Annalena Baerbock.
The Bundestag election year 2021 is just around the corner - but there are still many unanswered questions about the top candidates.
Not only the Union, but also the Greens are still looking for the figurehead for the election campaign.
And possibly the new chancellor.
Recently, Annalena Baerbock placed herself more in the foreground.
There is praise from the competition.
But a survey shows a pretty devastating picture.
Berlin / Stuttgart - Not even nine months before the drastic federal election in 2021, there are above all: many unanswered questions.
It is clear that
Angela Merkel will hand
over the scepter after 16 years.
It is also clear that the
SPD
will send
Vice Chancellor
Olaf Scholz
into the race for the Chancellery.
But as bitter as it is for the Social Democrats -
this early determination will probably have nothing to do
with the question of who or the
new Chancellor
.
The decision on
Germany's new head of government will of course be
formally made by the
Bundestag
- and previously indirectly by the voters in the country.
But if the Corona crisis does not completely shake up the country again, then the preliminary decision on the appointment of the Chancellery should either be made at the approaching CDU party congress and in the following debates between the Union parties.
Or, who knows, from the
Greens
.
In the past few days, they have brought themselves back into conversation.
Above all a possible new chancellor
in
:
Annalena Baerbock
.
Greens in the election year: Baerbock “dares to run the Chancellery” - party sets the course
"Yes, I also trust myself to be in the Chancellery," Baerbock told
Bild am Sonntag
shortly before Christmas
.
However, the same applies to her
co-chairman Robert Habeck
.
You also trust “Robert Chancellor”, emphasized the Green.
And tried to take the wind out of the sails of doubters.
“Nobody fell from heaven as Chancellor,” she emphasized.
“Everyone would have to learn new things in office.” An open approach to mistakes, a striking fallibility, should also be part of the
new Green profile
- Baerbock recently admitted that her party misjudged the nursing situation in hospitals.
It's not entirely new.
The former
eco-party
had formulated its
claim to the highest government office in the country
weeks ago.
In clear words before your own party congress - and in a quite memorable staging at the same: Baerbock spoke in a white outfit in front of a deep black backdrop.
And in a striking style that supports the state.
The pictures from the Berlin Tempodrom also met with ridicule.
But the sometimes bizarre scenery with the two
Green bosses
in the staged Neo-Biedermeier living room achieved at least one purpose: it was a topic of conversation.
To present oneself as “able to learn” and at the same time fit for government was obviously one of the
Greens'
major concerns in December
.
Baerbock spoke out in
favor of greater armaments
spending - actually tantamount to a cultural break with party roots, but also a basic requirement for
a black-green coalition
.
On Monday, the party added a concept for rail transport in Germany.
Nothing unusual for an opposition party either.
Nevertheless, observers already read a plan for a “green ministry of transport”.
After Angela Merkel: Greens as Chancellor Party?
Kretschmann warns of red-red-green
Between the years, the only head of government of the Greens in Germany,
Winfried Kretschmann, made
a clear commitment
.
“If the opportunity is there, we should do it.
Anything else would be extremely surprising, ”he told the dpa with a view to a possible Green move into the
Chancellery
.
But that's where the problems begin.
Because even if it seems conceivable that in view of vaccination misery and corona disputes, the Greens will carry their
opposition
role
back to higher result regions - a coalition will be necessary for the formation of a government.
Kretschmann indirectly warned of a possible
red-red-green alliance
.
This option should also be explored, explained Kretschmann with caution - and called for a “stable” coalition in the federal government.
"It is well known that I don't think much of this constellation, but I also don't think much of exclusivity."
Of course, the
left
has other interests in this matter
.
But their outgoing
party leader Katja Kipping also
gave the Greens a remarkable warning on Tuesday (December 29).
"In the end, the Greens from Fridays For Future will have to put up with tough questions," she told
taz
in an interview.
Should the party decide in favor of black-green, “four more years could be lost for climate protection”: “Then the Greens are in real need of explanations.” Angela Merkel's climate policy has recently received harsh criticism.
And the black-green government in Hesse also failed environmentalists in 2020.
Chancellor Annalena Baerbock?
Kipping sees “more substance” in the Green boss than in Habeck
Kipping also indicated a preference
for the
green K question
.
"Annalena has caught up a lot in the last few months," she judged.
"Actually everyone says: Robert Habeck is the better known, she is the one with more substance." In the
social networks
, however, Baerbock's announcement - with reference to former TV slip-ups - was partly ridiculed.
However, mostly in clientele that are more remote from the Green Party.
At the same time, advocates were found.
Yes, that's exactly it.
#Sexism
If a Mr. #Merz starts, that's not an issue.
#Baerbock #chancellor
- Cornelia Schacht 🌻💚♀️ (@ lylyth31) December 21, 2020
Who will ultimately be, the Greens could possibly make dependent on the outcome of the Union race for the candidacy for chancellor.
Because with the free choice of the “black” top candidate, the tone for the election campaign should also be set.
It could be about
making
Friedrich Merz
or
Markus Söder steal
the political center.
Or to set yourself apart from a more centrist candidate like
Armin Laschet
or
Norbert Röttgen
with targeted accents.
Annalena Baerbock (Greens): Survey shows a devastating picture of the Chancellor
Perhaps for this reason the Greens don't want to elect their
top
candidate until next year.
In any case, Baerbock would feel armed.
She told the
BamS
that she had the nerves, the stamina in negotiations, the psychological and physical strength for the Chancellery
.
“Yes, you need all of these factors.
And believe me: three years as party leader, member of parliament and mother of small children are pretty tough. "
However, Baerbock also has to put up with a
setback
: In an
online survey by the Civey Institute
- representative according to the
polls
- the Germans of the Greens issue a bad Chancellor testimony: 51.5 percent of the participants in the ongoing survey said they thought Baerbock “ definitely not “for a good chancellor.
Only 8.7 percent said that Baerbock was "definitely".
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