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Habeck is officially applying to be the Green Party’s candidate for chancellor
According to hints, it is official: Robert Habeck wants to become the Green Party’s candidate for chancellor. The nomination should follow next week.
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The Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) decided not to run for chancellor in 2021 in favor of Annalena Baerbock.
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Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck has declared his application for the Green Party’s top candidacy for the next federal election. “I am running as a Green Party candidate for the people of Germany,” said Habeck in a video published on Friday on the Internet services Instagram and YouTube. He will therefore ask his party to lead them into the next federal election.
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“If you want, even as chancellor. But that’s not mine, that’s your decision. Only you can decide that,” he added. It had already become public in the morning that the Vice Chancellor would officially declare his candidacy on Friday. Next week, the ex-party leader of the Green Party would like to be nominated at the party conference in Wiesbaden next weekend. There are no promising opposing candidates. The candidacy had been an open secret for months.
Habeck reports back to online service X
One day after that Break of the traffic light coalition the Vice Chancellor reported back to Platform X. He had also posted a short video clip there that night that had hidden clues about Habeck’s plans. Among other things, he was seen wearing a bracelet on which the words “Chancellor Era” were formed from letter beads. He quietly hums the melody to the song “Time for something to turn” by Herbert Grönemeyer.
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Habeck also wrote on the online service “Back for good” (back for good). “Leaving places like this to the loudmouths and populists is easy,” he added. “But making things easy for yourself cannot be the solution. Not today. Not this week. Not at this time. That’s why I’m back on X.” At the last federal election in 2021 Habeck had given up Annalena Baerbock’s candidacy for chancellor.
Habeck turned his back on the online networks Twitter and Facebook at the beginning of 2019. The trigger was the fuss over an election campaign video about Thuringia, which brought him a lot of criticism. Habeck himself later admitted that “what I said was really stupid.” He deleted his Facebook profile after private conversations within his family were published as part of a virtual data theft.
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New elections in March at the latest
In Germany, after the break of the “traffic light” coalition, it is expected in March at the latest the Bundestag re-elected. According to current surveys, Habeck’s chances of following in the footsteps of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) are poor. Accordingly, the Greens would only get 10 to 12 percent.
In the 2021 federal election, the Greens with candidate for chancellor Annalena Baerbock won 14.8 percent. That was well below their expectations after polls had seen them above 20 percent for a long time.
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