2023-11-24 12:38:51
The leading duo of the German Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have been re-elected. The delegates at today’s party conference in Karlsruhe gave both of them another two-year term in office. Lang ran unopposed in the seat reserved for women, Nouripour prevailed against the outsider candidate Philipp Schmagold from Schleswig-Holstein.
Lang received 82.3 percent of the vote, Nouripour 79.1 percent. Schmagold came in at 12.0 percent. The election, which was carried out with digital voting machines, should be confirmed with pen and paper at the party conference in Karlsruhe, and the results should be available tomorrow.
Lang achieved a better result than her first election. She received 75.93 percent of the votes at a virtual party conference in January 2022. At that time, the election still had to be confirmed by letter, and she received 78.73 percent of the vote. Nouripour did worse: he initially received 82.6 percent in 2022 and 91.7 percent in the later postal vote with two opposing candidates.
The duo works together without any apparent problems. Both appear less profiled than their predecessors at the party leadership, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, who are now attracting significantly more attention as ministers. They are continuing Habeck and Baerbock’s course and trying to make the Greens more electable to more people beyond the core clientele – which, according to surveys, has recently been less successful.
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