The worst Green Party state association in the world: Berlin

Opinion

At the weekend there was a party conference for the Berlin Greens. In the election for the presidency, the delegates failed the candidate from the Realo wing in three rounds. Completely unopposed. Tanja Prinz was literally humiliated with 25, 26 and 27 percent before she stormed out of the hall in tears. The rest was lost in chaos. , continued on Wednesday. Happy Advent everyone.

The process confirms a common prejudice, no, it cements a verdict that those involved have honestly earned: the Berlin Greens are the worst regional association of their party.

You could call it a sentence with no particular news value, because it has actually never been different since the Alternative List was founded. Here people always acted as if the Cree’s prophecy had just been passed down incorrectly: “Only when the last tree has been cleared, the last river has been poisoned, the last fish has been caught, will you realize that the Berlin Greens have something very special in their pipe smoke.”

Now it is often difficult to judge from the outside what really caused something. Not in this case. It was a debacle with an announcement. As a representative of a group that advocates a more civil course in domestic and migration policy, candidate Prinz had already only won a narrow majority in the Realo wing.

Don’t mess with the latte cargo bike leftists

How difficult should it be for the latte cargo bike left? Or how adventurous, because just the day before, nine of twelve district associations, including that of the candidate herself, had accused her Realo group of dubious methods in an open letter. The dispute had escalated to the maximum even before the party conference began. Don’t tell anyone they weren’t warned.

Whatever it ultimately was, an agreement not kept, a warning not heard, or a sneaky attack, none of it speaks for the professionalism of those involved, for their political ability.

If politics, especially that celebrated at party conferences, is a form of performing art, then the Greens have once again delivered something between tragicomedy and farce.

Of course, show isn’t everything and politics is largely a craft. But then let’s talk about crafts. About how the Berlin Greens managed to get out of government in record time and quite rightly . You have to do that first, in a city that is largely as green as Freiburg or Tübingen!

Culture clash in the pedestrian zone

This is where you get laid which, with all the random street furniture, exudes about as much charm as the employee parking lot at the Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plant. In the drizzle.

Here you defend yourself with your hands and feet of the 350 hectare former Tempelhof Airport. What for? Here it is better to solve housing concerns through expropriation – not that of the Swabian community of heirs, don’t worry, just that of the large real estate companies.

Here you are always at odds with your own federal party – and in this regard, the CDU and SPD are no different from the Greens.

This is where Markus Söder can always cry the loudest about his state financial equalization billions. Merz’en’s next one is written here as if by itself.

The party conference is scheduled to continue on Wednesday. Until then, it is important to “keep calm,” warns co-state chairman Philmon Ghirmai, who also has to be re-elected. This fits in quite well at this time when wishing helps again.