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Germany, the world upside down: the CDU tears itself apart while the Greens are compact and choose who will run for the chancellery

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BERLIN. The world seems to be upside down. While Angela Merkel’s party, the unsinkable battleship CDU / CSU, has been tearing itself apart for weeks in the most ruinous brawl in decades over the choice of the next candidate for the chancellery, the Greens are marching compactly like a phalanx towards the appointment of the man or woman who will launch into the challenge for the post-Merkel. Not a syllable, not an indiscretion has leaked from the most nervous, eventful, split former party of German politics on the preference that the “bigs” will express tomorrow morning between the two current leaders Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock.

For decades, the Gruenen were by definition the split party. Inside between “Realos” and “Fundis”, between pragmatists and idealists. But it was also the most prodded and pulled political force even from the outside by its supporters but also by the most intransigent left. The congresses and public appearances of their “big” often ended with furious or desperate protests, pies in the face, invasions of naked ultra environmentalists and colored water balloons. The urgency of the fight against climate change, the death of the Amazon forests or the hole in the ozone layer has always enriched the public discussion on its objectives with dramatic sharpness.

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The former foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, knows something about it, who in 1999 ended up with an eardrum damaged by a paint-filled balloon pulled by a left-wing activist for his courageous decision to intervene in Kosovo that put an end to decades of iron pacifism of German environmentalists. Instead, a dead silence has fallen for months around the Greens. No internal lacerations, no internal wars between the two leaders. The peace evoked for the rest of the world has finally broken out even in its former messy ranks.

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The pragmatists won in the party: Habeck and Baerbock are both expressions of the realist wing of the Greens. And in recent decades Germany has experienced the Gruenen in government with the SPD but also in countless cities and lands. And he shows himself, even in the polls, ready for a government that cannot be more realistic. In the scenarios that are being made in recent months, the Gruenen are always given to the next government. Or as a junior partner of the CDU / CSU, if the conservatives were to defend the margin they still have in the polls and finish first. Or, if German environmentalists succeed in overtaking, they might even express a chancellor for the first time in history. At the moment the CDU / Csu leads the Greens by five points, it is around 27-28%. But things could change. This is why tomorrow morning’s choice between Habeck and Baerbock could become one of the most important moments in view of the elections on 26 September.

Both, both Baerbock and Habeck, are proverbial mediators. And it is no coincidence that under their leadership the Greens have regrouped as rarely in history. The 51-year-old Habeck, who, unlike Baerbock already has experience in government, is still handed down “the peace of mussels”, when as Minister of Agriculture of Schleswig-Holstein he managed to strike an agreement between fishermen and environmentalists, after years of fruitless negotiations . Born in the city of the Buddenbrooks, in Lübeck, a philosopher by training and writer, Habeck often writes his novels together with his wife, Andrea Paluch, known at the time of the university. Four children, a vegetarian but not opposed to hunting, Habeck fought for greater solidarity in migration policies but also said he was convinced that closer surveillance is needed against Islamic fundamentalism.

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He caused a scandal in 2019 and felt compelled to delete his Twitter and Facebook profile when he tweeted that it was necessary to vote for the Greens in Thuringia to make it “finally open, free, democratic”. As if the land of old East Germany, where one in four voters actually vote Afd, was Pinochet’s Chile. And it had already sparked a wave of outrage over a similar tweet about Bavaria the previous year. Since then he has preferred direct communication or “digital but slow” communication. Habeck continues to keep his Instagram profile active, where his glossy snapshots of wild horses arouse some perplexity.

Baerbock did not fail to tease him publicly for his bucolic side: “He comes from chickens, pigs and cows to be milked. I come from international law ”. But the two flaunt harmony in public and also the strength of the 40-year-old native of Hanover is to have pacified the party without major drama. In fact, the political scientist by training also grew up on a farm in Pattensen, Lower Saxony. Mother of two girls and former diving champion, she has won the bronze medal three times in national tournaments. And it is said to be highly appreciated by Angela Merkel. And not because as a child the chancellor famously waited for an entire swimming lesson, before jumping, terrified, from the three-meter diving board. But because Baerbock embodies typically Merkelian characteristics: stamina, quick and tactical thinking, iron will. She recently stood out with an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in which she signaled the desire to shift the Greens to more interventionist positions on defense and foreign policy. “We need a strong joint commitment to defense,” he said in response to the trauma of the Trump years and the backs to Europe of NATO’s most important ally.

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