Overview

• At the Leipzig congress on Saturday, delegates chose Henriette Held with 93.6% and Luis Bobga with 76.2% to succeed Jette Nietzard and Jakob Blasel.
• Held, 23, framed the climate crisis as a question of social justice and vowed more attention to East Germany, while criticizing the Greens’ role in tightening asylum policy.
• Bobga, 23, pledged to “turn the party back to the left,” prioritizing redistribution, social policy, antiracism and diversity, and faulted the Greens’ campaign for courting the CDU and casting migration as a security issue.
• Internal tensions remain a live issue as multiple reports detail allegations of intimidation and “mobbing” against outgoing co-chair Nietzard; she did not refute them and called for an independent ombudsstelle to examine the claims.
• In a sign of accountability pressures, delegates refused to grant discharge to a previous federal board, while the organization says membership has rebounded to nearly 19,000 after a slump to around 16,000.