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Brantner needs to “make Green nice once more,” she mentioned, adapting the slogan of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, whom she has criticized as a menace to world local weather coverage.
Brantner will stay state secretary within the German economic system ministry, headed by Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice chancellor. He is anticipated to be nominated because the Green Party’s candidate for chancellor on Sunday.
Brantner has appreciable EU expertise. She was accountable for EU and commerce coverage within the economic system ministry. She has additionally served as an MEP and is the German authorities‘s particular consultant for a world initiative to scale back corruption within the extractive industries.
Europe is in her DNA, she mentioned in her speech on Saturday. “We want peace in Europe, in Ukraine,” Brantner mentioned. But this was “not submission,” she added. Addressing her remarks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, she mentioned: “We are actually unbiased of your gasoline, and we’ll now make investments a lot, way more within the safety of Europe.”
The party’s earlier leaders, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, resigned in September after disastrous leads to elections in three japanese German states.
Brantner will lead the Greens along with Felix Banaszak, who was additionally elected in Wiesbaden on Saturday. The party is a part of the remnants of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s former traffic-light coalition, which collapsed final week.
Sven Giegold was elected because the party’s political director, leaving his submit as German State Secretary for Economic Affairs. He was beforehand an MEP.
The new Greens management should regain floor within the polls for the party, which is hovering round 11 %.
