Greens: Anyone who wants to govern this country must not be ashamed of Germany

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It's only a half-sentence, but one with explosive power: “

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Hundreds of amendments have been received for the party program of the Greens for the federal election, which are to be discussed and voted on at the federal delegates' conference.

Under the awkward name “PB.E-01-001-2”, the symbolic, the title of the election program, is the focus.

Applicant Michael Sebastian Schneiß, an employee of the green EU parliamentarian Erik Marquardt, wants to achieve with 305 other delegates that the first word of the title is deleted.

From Germany.

Everything is included. "According to the request of some applicants," Green.

Everything is in there. "

The reason for this is short and simple: “The focus of our politics is on people in their dignity and freedom.

And not Germany. "

This is reminiscent of one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the Greens.

In the election campaign in the year of reunification in 1990, the party went with the slogan: “Everyone is talking about Germany.

We're talking about the weather ”and failed miserably when it entered parliament - after all, the current party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck admitted this as a mistake 30 years later.

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Baerbock and Habeck should also take a clear position on motion PB.E-01-001-2, although it is only a simple amendment.

Because it symbolizes a problem facing the Greens: the party is still adaptable in all directions.

Whether green-black, traffic lights or green-red-red: according to the polls, the Greens currently have more coalition options than the school swarm at the prom. 

The closer the federal election comes, the more the Greens have to show their colors.

Because two of their potential power options are coalitions with parties that do not belong to the anti-German camp.

There it is part of the basic consensus - beyond all debates on dominant culture and patriotism - that Germany is the name of the country that they want to govern from autumn.

The question of the political position of the Greens is far from resolved, but they can only win the election with a connection to the center and votes from the bourgeois camp.

And anyone who wants to govern here must not be ashamed of the word “Germany” in the title of their election manifesto.