“I wanted more, and we wanted more,” says disappointed former minister after 4th place finish.
BERLIN — Germany’s Green candidate for chancellor Robert Habeck will step down from a leadership position after his party finished in fourth place in Sunday’s national election.
« I will no longer claim or seek a leading role in the Green Party’s leadership team, » Habeck said, without providing further details, during a press conference at the German Bundestag,
« I wanted more, and we wanted more, » he said about the party’s disappointing election result, though added he was proud of the « short and intense » campaign.
Germany’s conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, came out on top in the snap election, tilting the country to the right after years of a center-left Social Democrat-led coalition that included Habeck’s Greens.
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