The new leaders of the German Green Party were elected on Saturday. Franziska Brantner received 78.15 percent of the votes, Felix Banaszak 92.88 percent (see video above). The new elections became necessary because the previous administration announced its withdrawal in September.
Brantner (45) has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. She is from Baden-Württemberg and has a PhD in social sciences. As a student, Brantner lived in Paris and New York, among other places, and she is credited with founding the Realo wing of the Greens.
Banaszak (35) comes from Duisburg and has been in the Bundestag since 2021. He studied social and cultural anthropology and political science in Berlin. The politician belongs to the left wing of the party. The Greens should be “a force of confidence”, the 35-year-old said in his application speech, scoring points with both humor and emotion. A party that does not discuss and argue internally in the current situation would be “a dead party”, he said, for example.
Climate money and legal abortion
Brantner based her speech on Saturday at the federal party congress in Wiesbaden (Hesse) on puns. “Tightening your belt won’t help if you don’t have pants.” The Green Party defended Germany’s public transport ticket and announced that it would support climate-friendly heating systems such as heat pumps.
It is expected that Brantner and Banaszak will now be at the helm for two years. As reported, the leadership of Germany’s Green Party resigned in September after three failed state elections. That is why the federal government has now been re-elected.
The deputies also took a number of decisions on this occasion, including the legalization of abortions up to the twelfth week (as stated in the criminal code in Austria, note) and the introduction of so-called climate money. Revenues from carbon pricing must be paid to people “with low and middle incomes”.
Source: Krone
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