Overview
- Pankow members backed Klaas over Gelbhaar by 179 to 83 for Berlin’s Wahlkreis 6, a constituency the Greens have held comfortably for nearly two decades.
- Gelbhaar’s bid came after revelations that the harshest allegations were fabricated and had misled broadcaster RBB, with the politician winning parts of several defamation cases.
- A Hamburg appellate decision struck portions of Süddeutsche Zeitung’s reporting but allows coverage that eight women described inappropriate encounters; a related case brought by Klara Schedlich is under appeal.
- After the clear defeat, Gelbhaar declined to pursue a final ballot at the meeting; any future attempt to enter the Abgeordnetenhaus would likely require a place on the state list.
- Separately, AfD Brandenburg’s leader René Springer told a party conference he aims for an absolute majority despite the state intelligence service’s extremist classification, and Green leaders in Kiel apologized after a committee motion passed with an AfD swing vote.