Robert Habeck: Ex-Vice-Chancellor laid mandate in the Bundestag

The ex-Vice Chancellor of the traffic light coalition Robert Habeck (Bündnis90/Die Grünen) wants to resign his Bundestag mandate. The former Federal Minister of Economics said in an interview with the. He would go abroad next year. “This Monday I told the Bundestag Presidium that I will return my Bundestag mandate on September 1st.” He justified this with planned activities at research and educational institutions abroad.

On the grounds, Habeck said: “For me, things are so that I have to gain distance from the too tight corset of the Berlin politics; also to receive again and not to send them straight away, as the recent years. It is also said that one door is.

His retreat from the Bundestag is “no retreat from political discourse” or from his party, the 55-year-old clarified. “If I think I can contribute interesting things, I will say that,” he announced in the “taz”. First, however, he wanted to “research, teach and learn at various foreign research and educational institutions”. Habeck thus confirmed a planned activity at the University of Berkeley in California. He named the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen as a further institution. Further stations should be added.

The Greens parliamentary group leader Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge regretted the departure of Habeck from the Bundestag. “We would like to thank Robert Habeck for his work with all our hearts,” they said in Berlin. The Greens party chairman Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak also expressed thanks and recognition. “What Robert Habeck has done for Germany and the alliance green party in recent decades can hardly be expressed in words,” they emphasized.

With the farewell of Habeck, one of the most profiled Greens politicians withdraws from daily politics. Habeck has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. He had been the Greens party leader since 2018. Habeck was the top candidate for the Greens in the past federal election. The party only reached 11.6 percent – a loss of around three percentage points. The day after the election, Habeck announced his withdrawal from the first row of the party and faction. Even then He had initially left open for three days whether he would perceive his Bundestag mandate. Tens of thousands then called for the whereabouts of the “hopefuls” in politics in an online petition.

As the Federal Minister of Economics, Habeck deservedly earned in the energy crisis in the energy crisis after Russia’s large -scale attack on Ukraine. The turn for him came with the controversial heating law, followed by months of negative headlines, the coalition partner FDP put him under pressure.

Most recently, the opposition chalk the poor economic situation, which Habeck largely attributed to external influences such as the Ukraine War. His demand for far -reaching investments now meets a government led by the CDU, which had sharply attacked him for this. In 2011, even before the Russian major attack on Ukraine, he asked for arms deliveries to the country – for the unwillingness of his party.

Habeck was gladly as “children’s book author” by political opponents. In fact, he is the author of several political non -fiction, studied philosophy and language sciences and did her doctorate. With his wife with whom he has four sons, he wrote novels and children’s books.

Habeck’s political career began in Schleswig-Holstein, where he was a minister and deputy prime minister for six years.

Note: This article has been updated and further information was added.