Overview
- The membership vote, which approved all 17 proposed statute changes on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, passed with about 35 percent turnout and now takes effect.
- Most measures won comfortable margins with 15 passing by roughly two thirds while a gender quota for supporters cleared by a narrow margin of about 51 percent.
- Key rules tighten how member motions reach party conferences by raising the requirements to 0.05 percent of members (about 90 signatures) and requiring half of those supporters to be women.
- The party creates a Generalsekretär(in) post that replaces the political manager role and immediately renames Pegah Edalatian to that office, while the Bundesvorstand may now include three of six members who are parliamentarians.
- Opponents failed to halt the vote in an expedited hearing at the Landgericht Berlin but have signaled further internal and legal challenges, and the changes respond to Greens membership growth from roughly 60,000 to about 184,000 over the past decade.