It rattled a lot with the Greens.

The resentment is directed against Robert Habeck, on the one hand.

On the other hand, against the unknowns who betrayed the FAZ that he - and not Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock - will become Vice Chancellor in the future government.

At the parliamentary group level of the Reichstag, the Green MPs stood before their first parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday afternoon, there was coffee and a few canapés.

Wild speculations made the rounds as to who might have spread the message and what interest is behind it. Most of the MPs had found out about it from the newspaper, which also annoyed them. And anyway: Such debates are not needed before such important negotiations. Already in the morning Jürgen Trittin had complained in the magazine “Der Spiegel” that “the party and not two people in personal conversations” decides who gets which post.

The parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt said a few words to calm the minds: Habeck was holding talks with Baerbock to form a coalition, and in the end a decision would be made on the staff as a whole. Then the parliamentary group spokeswoman wants to announce Habeck, but he is already behind the microphone, visibly contrite. Annalena Baerbock and he would "hold the coalition and exploratory talks together with great unity, great unity, great strength," says Habeck. The party stands “in 120 percent unity” behind Baerbock. He confirmed once again that "all questions" had been clarified between the two party leaders. At the moment, the question of who will take over the post of Vice Chancellor is "completely irrelevant". It is not appropriate to "enter into speculation about personnel,before we even started exploratory talks ”. And “of course” at the end of the process the party will decide on content and personnel by way of a party congress or a member survey.

Habeck still spoke of the "spirit of recognition and respect" that had shaped the past years of work in the party executive and that will continue to rule in the future.

"So far, thank you, I'm going on my way," he said.

And was gone.

Personnel debates do not suit the Greens at all

The Greens have to do quite a lot at once right now. This Wednesday, the party leaders meet for the first time with FDP leader Christian Lindner and his general secretary Volker Wissing for so-called preliminary auditions. The SPD has already invited to talks. At the same time, they are putting together an exploratory team. The parliamentary group doesn't run by itself either. The Greens now have 118 MEPs, compared to 67 before the election. Many of the newcomers are very young, some only know life as an activist, not as a politician. They need to be involved, but not everyone in a faction of this size can get a spokesperson. On Thursday, the current parliamentary group board is to be confirmed for a transitional period, although it is not yet entirely clearwhether the deputies should continue provisionally or not.

Personnel debates don't suit the Greens at all.

And certainly not debates that indicate internal struggles within the party leadership.

The Greens need strength and unity in the coming weeks for the negotiations and then also to convey the party's result.

The problem is, however: the internal struggles do exist, or have existed.

At the end of a very agonizing process between the two bosses, there was an agreement that Baerbock would be candidate for chancellor, but that Habeck would take over the de facto leadership if the result of the general election was poor.

At 14.8 percent there was no room for interpretation.

Baerbock had agreed to this procedure.

Habeck is the party's new center of power.