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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Hamburg's Greens state chairman Anna Gallina would welcome it if a woman applies to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the federal election in September.
"Overall, I would think it would be nice if a female candidate were in the race for the Chancellery," said the Justice Senator of the German Press Agency.
"But all the scenarios of how it can end for the Greens are good."
Which of the Greens federal chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck will enter the race as the top candidate is still undecided.
"We have a luxury situation because it is perfectly clear that both of them can do it."
Both had "found an incredibly good common course in their differences" and were "intrinsically motivated with a view to the climate crisis," said Gallina.
She perceives Baerbock and Habeck in such a way “that for both of them it is not a question - and that is rare in politics - who can be first or first?
That is not the question that moves them both. "
So far, the SPD has committed itself to Olaf Scholz as candidate for chancellor.
At the Union, with the financial expert Friedrich Merz, the foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet, who want to apply for CDU federal chairmanship and chancellorship, and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder are also only men as chancellor candidates.
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For the Greens, it is always an important question whether a woman or a man is running, said Gallina.
“Annalena has fully honored her announcement that she will not be the woman at Robert's side for the chair.
You can also see from the re-election results that the party appreciates its strong role very much, ”said Gallina.
Both Baerbock and Habeck each received over 90 percent of the vote in their re-election at the federal party convention in November 2019 - but Baerbock was clearly ahead with 97.1 percent.