The election posters of the Greens surprise neither by their color nor by their content.

They are green, if a little more pastel than the familiar green-green.

They don't exactly stand out on green lawns, as the SPD immediately rejoiced.

Thematically it is about climate protection, species protection, social justice and partly also a departure without a specific goal.

Helene Bubrowski

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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“Our country can do a lot, if you let it,” behind them the friendly, smiling top duo Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck.

The campaign that the Green Federal Managing Director and election campaign manager Michael Kellner presented on Monday does not use bulky words from the party program such as climate-friendly prosperity.

The poster that was most frequently ordered reads: “Climate and the economy without a crisis”, plus a picture of Baerbock.

Promote postal voting

The Greens want to specifically woo the generation 60, as well as the first-time voters.

The campaign slogan “Ready because it's you”, which the Greens had introduced a few weeks ago, can be found on all posters, and a circle calls for “postal voting now”.

Most recently, many Green voters voted by letter.

So that's not surprising either, at most the parable that waiter came up with: "Like a squirrel collects nuts for the winter, we want to collect votes for government responsibility."

What is more interesting is what is not on the posters: the word Chancellor candidate just as little as the Chancellery or first place.

Most of the posters show Baerbock and Habeck or children, families, seniors.

Baerbock is also available alone, but so is Habeck.

A focus on the candidate for chancellor cannot be seen.

When asked why, Kellner didn't give a clear answer. It is about a “directional election campaign”, “the Greens are challenging the Union”. All the more, one might think, that the party should convey the will to conquer the Chancellery. Even if this claim sounds rather cocky in view of the latest polls - they see the party below 20 percent, no longer in the fight for first place, but for space with the SPD.

In view of this, did you consciously refrain from doing this?

Hardly imaginable.

The campaign was developed before the errors in Baerbock's résumé and the plagiarized passages in her book were discovered.

The Greens may be pushing a Chancellor offensive.

In the final spurt of the election campaign, it will be “even more personalized and sharpened,” said Kellner, and there will also be TV spots.

But it sounds like waiting to see how things develop.

You want to get out of the defiance

The Greens would like to influence this development in their favor. With “friendliness and joy and the lightness of summer”, a brilliant election campaign could still succeed, Habeck recently said in the Süddeutsche Zeitung when he suggested to party friends that instead of “yapping” an “embracing, inviting policy” should be pursued. Accordingly, the link “Our invitation” can be found on the website under the information on the federal election. The Greens want to get out of the defiance they had entered with the emergence of the allegations. Baerbock even spoke of "trenches".

The Greens had accused critics of "character assassination" and a "dirty campaign".

They have been working for a few days.

Baerbock wants to have it checked whether her doctoral scholarship is compatible with an expense allowance as state chairwoman in Brandenburg.

But the party continues to wrestle with how to deal with the Union.

Kellner warned: "Where necessary, we criticize the matter harshly, but with a fair tone." "LaschetWelle," said Kellner, "is not our tone." This hashtag is used by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister because of his Corona policy Blamed for future infections, Greens also took part.

Oliver Krischer, the deputy leader of the parliamentary group, who blamed Laschet for deaths in Canada because of his climate policy, had recently made a similar derailment.