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Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Berlin Chancellery
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck will relinquish their last official party functions. This was confirmed by a party spokeswoman »Zeit Online«. Accordingly, Baerbock and Habeck will not run again for the party council. The vote for the party council will take place at the party congress of the Greens, which begins on Thursday in Karlsruhe.
Two years ago, Habeck and Baerbock had been elected to the party council after their withdrawal from the party leadership and their move to the federal government in order to continue to be represented in one of the party's leading bodies. The party council advises the federal executive committee of the Greens and coordinates the work between the committees of the federal party, the parliamentary groups and the state associations.
After two years of the Greens participating in government in the federal government, there is considerable discontent among the party base in view of the compromises in migration and climate protection policy.
The party council has 16 members, 13 seats are elected, two go to the party chairmen and one to the federal manager. The two parliamentary group chairmen Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge are also not running again, as »Zeit Online« reports. In addition to the party council, the Greens also have the so-called six-party round, in which Habeck, Baerbock, the parliamentary group chairmen and the two party chairmen decide on the party's federal policy lines. However, this is not an official body.
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