Overview
- Henriette Held won 93.6% and Luis Bobga 76.2% in votes to lead the Grüne Jugend after a three-day congress in Leipzig.
- Delegates adopted an agenda centered on radical redistribution and social justice, with the new leaders vowing to pull the mother party to the left.
- Outgoing co-chairs Jette Nietzard and Jakob Blasel were formally farewelled after a turbulent year marked by public controversies and media-reported allegations against Nietzard that remain under internal review procedures.
- The congress withheld routine financial discharge for a previous federal board to preserve possible legal steps, and delegates kept the membership age limit at 27.
- Party chief Felix Banaszak urged cohesion as delegates displayed a banner reading “Please turn left” and chanted for a leftward shift, while membership figures were cited at roughly 19,000, up from about 16,000 a year earlier.