No.
For a number of years, they were THE opposition party of Germany. Since the creation in West Germany (1980) and with the adding of the Alliance 90 folks from old DDR (East Germany) in 1990....they have been evolving.
After the 1998 federal election....the Greens were invited into the SPD coalition....marking the point where they had to accept modifications to their opposition status.
It's safe to say that two elements of the party began to exist....one still attached to extreme views on the environment, and one being 'relaxed' to some degree....to reach a better world but taking longer to achieve goals. If you asked me how this ranked with Green voters? I'd say four out of five were neutral or for the better world....with 20-percent still being extremely pro-environment.
This week, with the protest action going on in the NW part of Germany.....it's again obvious that some segments of the activists are on the far left of the Green Party landscape.
A big deal? Well....German political parties have this tendency at times (historically) to break up.
I won't say this will occur in this case.....but this effort to give the 16-year olds the right to vote (a SPD priority)....could come at an opportune time where the Greens could break up, and a quarter of their voters walk away to some new political 'unit'.
Presently, if you add the numbers....the Greens have around 20-percent of the German public. A walk-away situation? You could knock off 5 points and figure a weakened Green Party would then exist, with a new more radical far-left Green Party sitting always in opposition.
This figuring into state politics? I doubt if you'd have any state (of the sixteen) where this new group would have more than 5-percent of the vote.....so they might only be able to get the numbers in a national election.
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