(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, SEP 25 - The co-leaders of Germany's
Greens party, which is part of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's
coalition government, announced their resignation Wednesday
following dire results in three state elections. Co-leader Omid
Nouripour said the ecologist party was suffering its "worst
crisis in a decade" after scoring vote percentages in the single
digits in three eastern state polls this month.
our beloved party to elect a new leadership," he told a press
conference. In Thuringia and Brandenburg states the Greens
failed to cross the five percent threshold needed to enter
parliament, and in Saxony they just scraped in. Co-leader
Ricarda Lang said the party "needs new faces to lead it out of
this crisis" and oversee a "strategic reorientation" before
national elections that are a year away. Lang and Nouripour will
remain in place until successors are elected at a party
conference in mid-November. (ANSA-AFP).
German Greens party leaders resign after election losses
Following dire results in three state elections