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The new leadership duo of the Munich Greens: Florian Siekmann and Svenja Jarchow-Pongratz.
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The Munich Greens have a new board.
In addition to Svenja Jarchow-Pongratz, Florian Siekmann will lead the party in the future.
Munich - In the state elections, the Greens lost a direct mandate in Munich, but defended their position as the strongest force in the Bavarian capital.
The success story should continue, but a new board of directors will be part of it.
City party conference of the Munich Greens: State parliament member Florian Siekmann prevails
At the city party conference on Saturday (February 24th), the Greens elected state parliament member Florian Siekmann as chairman.
He defeated Arne Brach with almost 52 percent of the vote.
The previous chairman Joel Keilhauer no longer took part for personal reasons.
Co-chair Svenja Jarchow-Pongratz will continue to be at Siekmann's side.
She was re-elected with over 90 percent of the vote.
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For Jarchow-Pongratz, the party conference on Saturday was special for another reason.
Two years ago, when the 43-year-old first applied for the chief position, it was done online because of the pandemic.
“We have all learned what a valuable asset freedom is.” But not just because of Corona, also because of the war of aggression against Ukraine.
“We are talking about multiple crises that influence our politics.”
But instead of all democratic forces coming together to look for solutions together, the Greens would be stylized as enemy number one - from all directions.
“Right-wing rhetoric is becoming socially acceptable.” Words were spoken that would have caused a justified outcry just a few years ago.
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And all of this culminated in the state election campaign - with stones being thrown at Katharina Schulze and Ludwig Hartmann and the instruction to the party executive not to go out and post posters alone because that might be dangerous.
“That, my friends, is not freedom.”
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And yet the Greens are back in the election campaign, which won't end any time soon.
The European elections are just around the corner on June 9th, and the federal elections next fall.
And then there are only six months left until the local elections.
Florian Siekmann (28) calls it the freestyle.
As an experienced campaigner, he would like to contribute his expertise.
“We will fight with all our might for the mayor’s chair.”
Mayor Dominik Krause: “New board has a good mix of experience and talent”
The Greens did so well in Munich in the state elections because they were able to build trust locally in the city districts through many discussions.
“I’m passionate about constituency work, that’s where my motivation lies.
Green politics from a single source.”
Siekmann has been a member of the state parliament since 2018, Jarchow-Pongratz is chairwoman of the Maxvorstadt district committee.
Munich's Green Mayor Dominik Krause also assumes that the party is well positioned with the new board: “The new board is a good mix of continuity and a breath of fresh air, of experience and talent.
These are the best conditions to continue the successful path of the past few years.” The large increase in membership in the past few weeks shows that many people trust the Greens in particular to defend democracy in Germany against right-wing extremists.
“This will be the most important task of the new board and I will support him with all my might.”