Green Party leaders Brantner and Banaszak are seeking a second term in office

The Green Party leaders Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak want to remain at the top of the party. Separately, but at the same time, both announced that they would be running for a second term at the party conference at the beginning of December.

Banaszak said in a message to the party base that he was running again “to work with all of you to set up our party for the next federal election.” Brantner wrote that she and Banaszak are running for co-chair again. “Together we can be the party that people trust to move this country forward.” The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had previously reported.

Brantner and Banaszak have led the Greens since November 2024. This year, the party achieved success primarily in the southwest and in Saxony-Anhalt: The Greens won the state elections in Baden-Württemberg with 30.2 percent, just ahead of the CDU, and Cem Özdemir became Prime Minister. In Saxony-Anhalt the party was able to increase from 5.9 to 8.9 percent. In the latest ZDF political barometer, the Greens achieved 14 percent nationwide.