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Green party leaders Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock
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The Greens want to come to a decision from the beginning of April on who will run for the party in the race for the chancellery.
"We will submit our personal offer when the trees are really green again - between Easter and Pentecost," said Federal Managing Director Michael Kellner to the newspapers of the editorial network Germany.
This year, Easter Monday is on April 5th, Whitsunday on May 23rd.
Both Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck are currently eligible.
Both currently lead the party together as a dual leadership - both had said last year that they would trust themselves to the chancellery.
"The main expectation of the party is that we will remain closed," said Kellner of the upcoming personnel decision.
"It would pull our ears out if we had an argument." Baerbock and Habeck would therefore "decide together which lineup is best for our country and for the party," said Kellner.
In the end, the party would campaign for both of them, assured Kellner.
»Election campaigns are a team sport;
This will remain so.
Only in the last few meters will one or the other pull from the front - as in a bike race. "
Kellner sees chances of winning the election
Kellner was convinced that there was a realistic chance for his party of an election victory.
"If everything is going well and the voters make the improbable possible: Yes, then the Greens will appoint the Chancellor."
If the Greens were to nominate a candidate for chancellor, it would be the first time in their history.
The only official candidate for chancellor for the 2021 federal election campaign has so far been Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz for the SPD.
The CDU and CSU want to decide in spring at the latest, beforehand the party chairmanship will be clarified at the Union on Friday and Saturday of the coming week.
The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, the former parliamentary group leader of the Union, Friedrich Merz, and the foreign politician Norbert Röttgen have applied to the Union.
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