No more top office – “Always given everything”: Baerbock withdraws

Baerbock was exchanged as the new co-factures leader. “After years at high speed” she wanted to think about herself and her family for a few days, Baerbock said. Since 2008 she has supported political responsibility at De Green, writes 44-year-old Baerbock.

“I’ve always given everything all this time.” And further: “At the same time, these intensive years also had a private price. That is why for personal reasons I decided to take a step out of the clear spotlights and not to request a leading office in the Federal Factation.

Baerbock is still a Foreign Minister in the Red-Green Minority Government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). She would have liked to keep the office, but after the elections of the Bundestag on February 23, the Greens are no longer necessary to form the government. Baerbock’s “feminist foreign policy” is controversial.

Baerbock and Habeck have formed the greens
The day after the election of the Bundestag, Greens Chancellor Robert Habeck announced his retirement from the front row. Baerbock, who supported him as a second top candidate, took more time.

With Habeck as a co-party leader, Baerbock had broadly placed the party between 2018 and 2022: De Groenen would become a kind of people with various possible coalition partners. In the European elections of 2019, the Ökopartei won more than 20 percent, the best results at national level. This was only 11.6 percent in the elections of the Federal in February.