In a power struggle for the Green ministerial posts in the new federal government, the former party leader Cem Özdemir prevailed against parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter. Greens federal manager Michael Kellner informed the membership on Thursday evening of the personnel table. According to this, Özdemir becomes Minister of Agriculture and Food. The party left, Steffi Lemke, is to become Minister of Environment and Anne Spiegel from Rhineland-Palatinate to be Minister of Family. As expected, the Foreign Office goes to co-party leader Annalena Baerbock, while Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection becomes co-party leader Robert Habeck. The previous Bundestag Vice-President Claudia Roth will become Minister of State for Culture and Media in the Chancellery.
The announcement was preceded by an internal dispute and the nomination - not as originally expected - was announced at the Bund-Länder-Forum of the Greens that started on Thursday.
Party leader Robert Habeck said at the event that the corresponding list should not be announced until Friday.
Only then can the strike vote begin.
According to reports, there was a quarrel between the left wing and Realos.
The left wing opposed the planned occupation of a ministerial office with the Realo Cem Özdemir.
The left-wing parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter stood up against Özdemir within the party.
Ministry of Transport goes to FDP
Habeck himself is in talks for the office of Minister for Climate Protection and Economics and is also to become Vice Chancellor. Otherwise, the Greens still get the departments for the environment and consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture and family, but not for the transport department they were hoping for. This should take over the FDP. "We would have liked to have had a few more ministries, but the others must have something too," said Habeck.
Habeck compared some of the party's future ministries to a shamrock.
He referred to the Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture;
these ministries, which will go to the Greens in the future, have often blocked each other in the past, according to Habeck.
The responsible bodies should give further advice after the federal-state forum in order to clarify the personnel issues.
Habeck appealed to the Greens members to vote for the coalition agreement negotiated with the SPD and FDP in the upcoming ballot.
"Let's rule Germany," said the party leader.
The personnel decisions, which are to be made by the federal executive board and then by the party council of the Greens, are "a very demanding task," said the federal executive director of the Greens, Michael Kellner.
According to the Greens, the strike vote should take ten days.
In addition to digital voting, voting by letter should also be possible.
A simple majority is necessary for the adoption of the coalition agreement and approval of the personnel board.
There is no quorum.