Green party chief Katrin Göring-Eckardt has ruled out a further application to be a top candidate for their party at the next Federal election. “I was twice a top candidate and it was a great task. But the next Time the others do,“ said the Newspapers of the Funke media group.

on The question of whether the Green values in the face of the good survey, a candidate for Chancellor should set up, said Goering-Eckardt, the next Federal election is expected to be the first in two and a half years. “The European elections in may will be an indicator of where the parties really stand.”

The change at the top of the CDU and CSU, the state to make black-and-green alliances, according to the assessment Göring-Eckardts more difficult. “Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer is even less liberal and less environmentally aware than Mrs Merkel. She thinks nothing of the marriage for all, and renewable energies in Saarland, little progress,“ she said.