German Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck will lead the Union 90/Green party in the early parliamentary elections to be held on February 23, 2025. His candidacy for German Chancellor is among the “ecologists” approved by the delegates of the federal congress of the Greens in Wiesbaden. The broadcast was carried out by the Phoenix television channel.
Habaek obtained the support of 96.48% of the delegates. He announced his plans to nominate his candidacy on November 8. In the last parliamentary elections in 2021, Habeck refused to run for the position of Chancellor of Germany in favor of the current Foreign Minister. Annalena Burbock. In July, Burbock announced that he no longer intended to run, TASS reports.
Let us remember that Germany is going through an acute political crisis. It arose in connection with disagreements in the ruling coalition on budgetary, financial and economic policies, including on increased assistance to kyiv and on the issue of easing the so-called debt brake (a rule prohibiting spending more money from the budget than it receives ). November 6 Chancellor Olaf Scholz decided to resign Christian Lindner (FDP President) of the position of Minister of Finance. The coalition collapsed.
On December 16, the Bundestag will debate the question of the vote of confidence in the Scholz Government. If the members of the Bundestag refuse to trust him, early elections will be held on February 23, 2025. The candidate of the conservative opposition CDU/CSU bloc is Friedrich Merz. The Green Party’s rating now ranges between 9 and 11%. In this sense, Habaek’s chances of becoming chancellor are extremely small.
