Green co-chairs criticize the political system as patriarchal and election-driven

The co-chair of the Rhineland-Palatinate Green Party, Christin Sauer, sees the design of the political system as a reason for endless personnel debates and the associated loss of trust in politics. “It's a very masculine, it's a very patriarchal system with the power of the strongest,” Sauer told the German Press Agency in Mainz. Something has to change here.

“You have to look at what kind of people this political system produces, which people stay in this system for decades and which leave because it is the way it is,” said Sauer.

Co-chair Carolin Cloos also points to the close succession of elections, which prevents more substantive debates. “There is always a choice somewhere, and that leads to certain issues being kept down and reforms not being addressed,” she said, adding: “There are a lot of adjustments that might need to be worked on.”