The leading duo of the German Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, were re-elected. Delegates attending today’s party conference in Karlsruhe granted them both another two-year term.
Lang ran unopposed in the seat reserved for women, Nouripour prevailed against the outsider candidate Philipp Schmagold from Schleswig-Holstein.
Lang received 82.3% of the vote, Nouripour 79.1%. Schmagold got 12.0 percent. The election, which was held using digital ballot boxes, is expected to be confirmed with pen and paper at the party conference in Karlsruhe, and the results are expected to be available tomorrow.
Lang obtained a better result than in the first election. She received 75.93 percent of the vote at a virtual party conference in January 2022. At that time, the election still needed to be confirmed by letter and she received 78.73 percent of the vote. Nouripour did worse: she initially received 82.6 percent in 2022 and 91.7 percent in later mail voting with two opposing candidates.
Lang and Nouripour work together without any apparent problems. Both appear less prominent than their predecessors in the party leadership, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, who are now attracting significantly more attention as ministers. They are continuing the path of Habeck and Baerbock and trying to make the Greens more electable to more people than their core clientele – which, according to research, has been less successful recently.