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Winfried Kretschmann spoke at the Green party conference in a video message
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Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann settled accounts with his party's federal election campaign at the Green party conference.
"During the election campaign, we made ourselves too small," he stated in a video message on Friday.
Economic issues and jobs were not given enough attention, the Greens were perceived as a "supplementary party".
From his point of view, the party absolutely has to open up new groups of voters.
»We have to be business-friendly«
"We started the election campaign as an alliance party and ended up as a milieu party," Kretschmann criticized.
The connection to the economy is particularly important.
»We have to be pro-business.«
The only green Prime Minister also demanded: "We must balance our message of change even more with a promise of security." That happened too little during the election campaign.
The Greens must show that they are not concerned with change for the sake of change, but with preserving what people hold dear.
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