Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter have been re-elected as group leader of the Greens in the Bundestag. Göring-Eckardt prevailed against challenger Kirsten Kappert-Gonther with 61.2 percent of the votes in the first ballot, Hofreiter won against Özdemir with 58.2 percent of the vote.
Özdemir and Kappert-Gonther were expressly started as a team, but was elected individually. A place in the double top is reserved for a woman.
Hofreiter and Goering-Eckardt had been considered as favorites for the election before the election. Since 2013, they have been jointly leading the Bundestag Greens. Özdemir is one of the best known greens. His teammate Kappert-Gonther, on the other hand, only moved into the Bundestag two years ago and had not attracted any attention outside her department, health policy, nationwide.
The election of parliamentary leaders is also considered so important because the Greens could become part of the next federal government. The leaders of the group would then have good chances to get a ministerial office. However, the party leaders Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock are currently considered the top candidates in the upcoming election.
Not all of them were happy with the leading duo Hofreiter / Göring-Eckardt. In the previous election, both had received only about two thirds of the votes without opposing candidates. To dissatisfaction also contributes to the fact that in the Federal Party with the election of the new bosses Habeck and Baerbock, although a sense of optimism has moved in, the faction compared but rather supported than shines.