NRW Greens need new party leadership: election at party conference

Created: 06/15/2022, 13:10

The incumbent Greens leader Mona Neubaur.

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The North Rhine-Westphalian Greens elect a new dual leadership at a party conference on June 25th and 26th in Bielefeld.

The incumbent chairmen Mona Neubaur and Felix Banaszak are no longer standing.

Both politicians announced this on Wednesday in personal statements that are available to the German Press Agency.

According to information from the party, there were initially no official applications for the future dual leadership.

Düsseldorf – Neubaur (44) has been the head of the Greens since 2014 and, together with CDU Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst, is leading the coalition negotiations for the first black-green government alliance in NRW.

The party conference in Bielefeld should also vote on the coalition agreement.

Neubaur indicated that she would like to work in a responsible position in a black-green coalition in the future.

"I am confident that we will be able to agree on a good substantive basis - and it would be a great honor for me to be able to implement it in a responsible position with clarity, compass and optimism for our party," she wrote.

The top candidate of the Greens won a mandate in the state elections in mid-May.

She is being treated as the future economics and climate protection minister in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Banaszak (32) has been co-party leader since 2018 and was elected to the Bundestag last year.

Banaszak made it clear in his statement that he would not be a member of the new NRW state government.

"I have decided that my place in the next few years is in the Bundestag faction." dpa