Press on Annalena Baerbock: "Germany as a kind of reformatory"

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The Greens are heading for the Chancellery with party leader Annalena Baerbock: The federal executive elected the 40-year-old as a candidate for the office of head of government on Monday.

A few months ago, the Greens - for the first time in their party history - decided to run for chancellor.

Baerbock still has to be officially nominated as candidate for chancellor at a party congress in June, but this is a formality.

She is also expected to run with co-party leader Robert Habeck as a top duo for the federal election on September 26th.

In the comments on the day after, the decision for Baerbock and against Habeck is considered correct.

Nevertheless, even in the opinion of benevolent voices, the entry of the Greens into the Chancellery could not be a sure-fire success.

"Stuttgarter Zeitung"

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Baerbock's choice is a wise one.

Not only because it seems zeitgeist to trust a 40-year-old with no government experience to hold the most important political office in the state.

With their pragmatic and non-ideological leading candidate, the Greens remain capable of joining pretty much every possible coalition in this confusing election year.

With Robert Habeck, who drifted further and further to the left, things would have looked different.

This Monday marks a bright point in the history of the Greens.

The party is now reaping what its pragmatists - once called realos - have sown: By breaking out of the eco-slippery and alternative scene, they have saved this party from its greatest danger: ending up as a one-topic and one-generation party like so many other foundings in the past 40 years

"Augsburger Allgemeine"

The Greens generously forgive her that, unlike Robert Habeck, she lacks any government experience.

The self-confidence of the young candidate, her brisk unconcern and the good feeling of being able to somehow manage it with her are enough for them.

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Many Germans, however, will very well ask themselves whether they want to entrust one of the largest economies in the world to a woman who has not even run a district office, let alone a ministry.

Good governance, which is often underestimated, is also a craft - and that needs to be learned and mastered.

A chancellor cannot allow herself to simply question the financing of NATO quickly or to move the coal phase out by eight years, as opposition politician Baerbock does.

“Volksstimme”, Magdeburg

“The Greens don't actually want to appoint the Chancellor. That is why you could afford not to make the choice of your candidate for chancellor dependent on surveys or qualifications. Undoubtedly, Robert Habeck should have made the race. Annalena Baerbock is the right candidate for the party and its goals, namely to become the second largest party and influential partner in a government coalition.

Younger, feminine, clever and with a fresher style, she is the contrast to the candidates from the CDU and SPD.

It bears the image of the Greens.

And unlike in the Union, the opponents for the top candidate have not weakened each other.

Habeck will continue to bring votes to the Greens.

And he is trusted to hold a ministerial office.

The dogged struggle of the somewhat older, but much older-looking men from the Union has ensured that the two are undisputedly ahead in questions of style. "

"The New Zurich Times"

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“May the Chancellor's electoral union Union, which may soon be given way, celebrate its lust for absolute disaster, the Greens meanwhile unequivocally claim government power. This new discipline and professionalism is impressive. However, it should not obscure what Annalena Baerbock called "politics for the broad masses of society" in her inaugural address as candidate for chancellor.

Because behind the soulful stories about their visit to the Paris climate conference including the baby traveling with them and the expected hackneyed everyday phrases, a closer look at the election manifesto of the Greens reveals a lot, but certainly not the “change” that Germany actually needs.

The paper shows a deeply statist and dirigistic image of society in which the regulating state counts a lot and individual freedom counts little.

The Greens envision Germany as a kind of reformatory. "

“Die Presse”, Vienna

“The freestyle was met with applause everywhere in the party - and not just because of the strategic calculation of going into the election battle against the male-dominated competition with the only woman and a relatively fresh face at the top.

The Greens reflect the zeitgeist better than their competitors, which is also inspired by awareness of the danger of climate change.

The forefronts of the party were amazed at how smoothly, without undermining, heckling and hacking the debate on the K question ran.

How two “realos” identified the question of power in private, contradicted all “noble” grassroots democratic principles. "

“La Repubblica”, Rome

“In the past few weeks, no information has been leaked about the possible outcome of the deliberations.

The Greens appeared to be a compact phalanx behind two chairmen whom they have so far directed without personnel disputes, who did not put themselves in the limelight at the other's expense and who listened to the grassroots.

Incidentally, with a view to the content, the grass-roots listening and the internal discussion remain extremely lively and distinguish the Greens from other parties.

The Greens seem to have buried their disheveled past, their historical division into Realos and Fundis, into pragmatists and idealists, and now even the forays of naked activists and the screams and creative actions at the party conventions of the first three decades seem to belong to history. "