Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak are aiming for a second term as Green Party leaders

The Green Party's top duo of Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak want to stand for re-election at the party conference in early December. It would be the second term for both of them. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” quoted emails from top politicians on Sunday.

“I am running again as your federal chairman in order to work with all of you to set up our party for the next federal election,” Banaszak wrote in a message to his supporters. Brantner wrote that she is running for party leadership together with Banaszak.

In the ZDF political barometer, which is based on a survey by the elections research group, the Greens are currently the third strongest political force in Germany. You would get 14 percent if there were a federal election next Sunday.

The AfD would be in the lead with 28 percent, followed by the CDU/CSU with 21 percent. Behind the Greens are currently the SPD with 13 percent and the Left with twelve percent. In the 2025 federal election, the Greens got 11.6 percent, significantly less than in 2021 due to their participation in the previous traffic light government.