Party conference
Greens: Lang and Nouripour re-elected as chairmen
Ricarda Lang has been confirmed as federal chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens. photo
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The Greens are under pressure, especially when it comes to migration. But the party seems largely satisfied with its co-chair Lang. Lang and co-chair Nouripur were re-elected.
The co-chair of the Green Party, Ricarda Lang was re-elected with 82.3 percent. The delegates at the party conference in Karlsruhe gave the 29-year-old another two-year term on Friday. She ran unopposed in the seat reserved for women.
Green Party co-chair Omid Nouripour was also re-elected with 79.1 percent. The delegates thus enabled the 48-year-old to serve another two-year term. Nouripour prevailed against an opposing candidate.
Lang achieved a better result than her first election. She received a total of 75.93 percent of the votes in January 2021. Since she was elected at a digital party conference at the time, she had to vote again by post – in this election, Lang received 78.73 percent of the vote.
Lang comes from Baden-Württemberg and considers himself to be on the left wing of the party. She has been with the Greens since 2012 and was also head of the youth organization Green Youth. Her focus is social policy.
Lang works with her co-chair Omid Nouripour without any apparent problems. Both appear less profiled than their predecessors at the party leadership, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, who are now attracting significantly more attention as ministers. They are continuing Habeck and Baerbock’s course and trying to make the Greens more electable to more people beyond the core clientele – which, according to surveys, has recently been less successful.
In her application speech, Lang emphasized the successes of the Greens as part of the traffic light coalition with the SPD and FDP. “I am so incredibly proud of what we have achieved in the last two years,” said Lang, who mentioned, among other things, securing the gas supply last winter, the 49-euro ticket and the abolition of paragraph 219a Ban on advertising for abortions. But Lang was also self-critical. The Greens are not always able to reach people. At times when her party was in trouble, she sometimes slipped into “technocratic” behavior.
“In my view, the traffic light and we as the Greens need an even stronger focus on social justice,” Lang wrote in her new application for the office. “We need a new promise of justice for the broad spectrum of society – from good collective wages to investments in infrastructure and a reliable welfare state.”