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Green politician Dröge: Has long been considered a potential parliamentary group leader
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The green economic politician Katharina Dröge wants to become parliamentary group leader.
She informed the MPs about her candidacy in a letter.
»We can only be successful as a team.
And I would like to lead this team for the next few years, as one of two group leaders, «says the letter that SPIEGEL has received.
The 37-year-old was the economic policy spokeswoman for her group in the last legislative period and was already a member of the group's executive committee as the parliamentary manager.
During the coalition negotiations for the formation of the traffic light alliance, she was the chief green negotiator in the labor group.
She belongs to the left wing of her faction.
The Greens are meeting this Tuesday for a virtual parliamentary group retreat and want to re-elect the parliamentary group executive committee in a week.
The previous group chairmen Katrin Göring-Eckardt from Realo- and Anton Hofreiter from the left wing reportedly do not want to run again.
Greens, too, should see climate protection as a task for all parties
In her statement, Dröge describes the urgent tasks of the new parliamentary group, especially in view of the climate crisis, which from their point of view must change the work of a government parliamentary group.
On the one hand, the parliamentary group must help ensure that the measures from the traffic light coalition agreement are implemented as quickly as possible.
It counts every year and every month.
On the other hand, it shouldn't limit itself to simply governing well.
"The challenges of this decade are so great that we have to think beyond the legislative period from day one."
Despite all the hectic everyday government life, rooms for interdisciplinary work are also necessary.
In addition, the public should no longer regard the fight against the climate crisis as a job for the Greens alone.
"In order to succeed in doing what is necessary in this crucial decade, climate protection will finally have to become the responsibility of all democratic parties."
The top of the parliamentary group could in future consist of two women
The parliamentary group has been speculating about Dröge's possible candidacy for a long time.
According to SPIEGEL information, it has been discussed with Anton Hofreiter, who, as a party leftist, has been one of the two parliamentary group leaders for the past eight years and, surprisingly, was not proposed for a green ministry last week.
The top of the faction is quoted according to the party logic: One person from the left wing and one person from the Realo wing belong to it.
Because of the women's quota of the Greens, there can be no male dual leadership, but a female one.
The former First Parliamentary Managing Director Britta Haßelmann is traded as a likely candidate for the Realos.
So far, however, she has been keeping a low profile.
