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On Monday Annalena Baerbock was elected Chancellor candidate of the Greens, and in the few days since the beginning of the week I have learned a lot about her.

Baerbock is “the woman in all cases”, “nobody can get past her” (Spiegel title).

She is a "political star" (taz).

Even more: There is “nothing against them” (Zeit Online).

I already suspected that, because I had already discovered the heading “The Superior” in the printed “Die Zeit”.

In addition, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had told me about Baerbock: “She belongs to the kind of politician for whom good is rarely good enough”.

In fact, there is “nothing that cannot end up on Baerbock's personal optimization list”.

Perhaps she will take care of the balance of German political journalism?

Front page DER SPIEGEL from April 24, 2021

Source: DER SPIEGEL

The head of the Greens could certainly do that, because the journalist Ferda Ataman said on Deutschlandfunk Kultur that Baerbock was “more plain text, almost the killer”. She also said about the candidacy: "And that it would then be a woman ... I would not have thought that you would take this courageous step." Which is certainly correct because Germany has never had a Chancellor and the Greens are not known for it are to have particularly progressive and efficient measures to promote women.

But Baerbock prevails “with the force of unconditionality”, as the “Süddeutsche” writes, which also explains that “it is part of Baerbock's trade secret to demand more from yourself and your party than remain painless”.

One or the other reader may now feel a little pulling and stabbing.

You have to go through that these days, because Baerbock is “finally different” (Stern title), or “not completely different”, as the “Tagesspiegel” specifies, but she embodies “change” and - allegedly different from Armin Laschet and Markus Söder - the "absolute will to develop further".

Front page STERN from April 22, 2021

Source: STERN

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In any case, according to “Zeit Online”, she is “like no one” and that's where I learn that “even her candidacy gives hope to millions of parents” or that Annalena Baerbock is a “role model for the millions of pandemic-tired mothers and fathers of our time”.

Whether it is about the same million parents is not clear from the text, but what Annalena Baerbock is fundamentally: namely “a historical opportunity”.

In any case, it is no longer possible for the candidate, who is unaffected by any government experience, to screw it up, but only the country: "And if Germany is not yet ready for Baerbock?"

Well, in any case, it "inspires [she] Europe's greens" (Tagesschau).

"She is suspicious of praise," reports the "Süddeutsche" about the green candidate.

Not easy days for Annalena Baerbock.