Why the German Greens’ Annalena Baerbock disappointed many
They had hoped she might become the party’s first chancellor
THE BAERBOCK bubble was short-lived—and burst spectacularly. In the weeks in April after Germany’s Green Party chose Annalena Baerbock, its 40-year-old co-chairman, as their candidate for the chancellorship, the Greens were on fire. An MP for only eight years and co-leader for just three, Ms Baerbock was everywhere—on magazine covers, television talk-shows and the evening news. In some polls the Greens supplanted both established parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, and the Social Democratic Party (SPD). “Endlich anders (at last, something different),” declared Stern, a weekly, in green letters under a cover picture of Ms Baerbock, clad in a black leather jacket, recounting admiringly her ascension from “political nobody to candidate for the chancellorship”. Die Zeit, another weekly, proclaimed Ms Baerbock “die Überlegene (the superior [candidate])”.
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