The top leading story on Focus this morning is an odd one.
So over the past four months in the Saarland (the state to the extreme far west of Germany)....there's been a lot of 'drama' over the regional Green Party and its choices for party positions.
Locally, they had gone in a particular way and elected their candidates for the September election....hoping to get better traction this time around.
Focus lays out the story, and what you have is some type of effort by the national Green Party Chancellor candidate (Baerbock) to change the leadership of the Saarland Green Party.
Reasoning? National Green Party has a rule or two....that leadership posts need to have women at the top. Yes, they wrote enough rules that it's near impossible to one single leader of a regional party group....you either run a female by herself, or you have a joint male-female 'team'.
The regional Greens in the Saarland were forced to revise the 'drama' and now have a single female lead as the party 'boss' there in the region. The guy who was elected a couple of months? Dumped.
Hurting the party with the 'drama'? Regionally, I suspect if you gathered up Green voters....they will all have a laugh over how this was handled, and admit that the national leadership crapped all over the regional trends. It wouldn't surprise me if you counted Green votes in the September federal election, and the Saar contribution is no more than it was in 2017....with no real gains.
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