The bursting of the Greens’ Baerbock bubble and the emergence of the CDU’s Laschet. But the Greens aren’t going away. Delegates to the Green Party conference, most connected digitally over a weekend in mid-June, adopted an election manifesto that calls for fast-tracking the switch to carbon neutrality over the next twenty years and vowing to turn Germany into a “socio-ecological market economy.” Annalena Baerbock and her co-leader Robert Habeck were confirmed with 98 percent.
According to Matthew Karnitschnig, the Berlin correspondent of Politico, “All she had to do was look in the camera, wave at the small audience and walk off the stage with a big smile that said ‘mission accomplished.’
Instead, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s Green candidate for chancellor, dropped an s-bomb. ‘Scheisse!’ she declared into her still-open microphone after delivering a 45-minute convention speech to party faithful Saturday.
Baerbock was apparently aggravated about flubbing a line in her address. … That beginner’s mistake was one of several to plague the fortyyear-old candidate in recent weeks, sowing doubt over whether she’s really ready for prime time.”
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