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There is resistance among the left wing of the Greens to the party's plan to run for federal election with a candidate for chancellor.
In an open letter from the “Independent Green Left”, the newspapers of the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) say: “Personality cult is not good for us and contradicts our ideals.” Therefore, the party should take a “realistic position and initially no candidates for chancellor * set up in ".
The Greens should "of course strive to become the strongest party in a coalition government," according to the information in the letter from the Green Left.
A candidate for Chancellor is not necessary because the Greens have "already seen too many elections", "in which we scored high in the polls and then crashed in the federal elections".
Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck: Who of the two will run as candidate for chancellor should be decided after Easter
Source: dpa / Kay Nietfeld
With the two chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, the party currently has a committed and well-working team as a federal executive, ”the letter continues.
"This very constructive cooperation, including with the grassroots, should not be given up without necessity."
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Should the federal executive decide to run for chancellor, the decision on whether and how to run for chancellor must be made at a federal delegates' conference or in a ballot of the green base.
The letter is signed by twelve members of the “Independent Green Left”, first and foremost by Klemens Griesehop from Berlin, who appears more often as a critic of the federal executive committee at party conferences.
The two party leaders are in talks for the Greens to run for chancellor.
Which of the two will start should be clarified between Easter and Pentecost.