Götz von Stumpfeldt is the first to throw his hat into the ring.

He wants to be elected as the new spokesman for the Greens on Saturday and then form the party's dual leadership together with Julia Frank.

The 56-year-old Frankfurt resident has only been a member of the Frankfurt district association for two and a half years, but he has already had a longer voluntary and full-time party career behind him.

At the time of the red-green federal government he was a consultant for economic policy in the Green parliamentary group, later in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Environment responsible for the subject of energy and in between, as is currently again, active at the German Society for International Cooperation in Eschborn;

currently he wants to promote the change to an environmentally friendly economy.

Mechthild Harting

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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After the election of the new city government at the beginning of September, but at the latest after the successful federal election, the Greens had hoped to calm down, to be able to devote themselves to the practical work in the Römer.

After all, there were exciting months behind the party with exhausting coalition negotiations and equally grueling internal disputes.

It turned out differently: ten days after the general election, the board announced that the party spokesman, Daniel Frank, who was only elected in June, was resigning from his position.

In the intoxicated state there was "cross-border behavior towards members in the form of inappropriate contact and statements".

Improve information exchange

Since then, the party has been busy processing what happened late on that election night.

The most pressing question is why none of the Greens present intervened.

Against the background that the party places high moral standards on everyone else, the Daniel Frank cause is more than just an individual's dropout.

"The coalition agreement in Frankfurt is a pound with which we can proliferate, but we Greens must work together to ensure that it is implemented," says Stumpfeldt, who wants to succeed Daniel Frank.

It is a challenge to implement the necessary steps.

As a spokesman, he wants to further improve the exchange of information and the coordination between green district groups, content-related working groups, the board of directors, the parliamentary group and the magistrate.

"We have to become strong in realizing common positions in compromises with others," he says.

Conversely, the Greens as a party would also have the right to influence society.

The noticeable heterogeneity of the Greens, especially in Frankfurt, does not frighten Stumpfeldt: There are many new members.

That is a great strength.

The district association is characterized by great liveliness and diversity.

For him it would be a wonderful job to work as a spokesman, above all to advance his most important political goal, climate protection.