The Greens in Darmstadt are very disappointed with the unpromising list position 13 for the long-time member of the Bundestag on the state list for the federal election.
Ambiguously – with great disillusionment and a portion of relief – the Darmstadt Greens received the voting results of the state members’ meeting on the weekend for the election of the state list for the federal election in autumn.
Leading party members were particularly disappointed with the performance of former state chairman and long-time member of the Bundestag, Daniela Wagner. As reported, the wife of Darmstadt’s Lord Mayor Jochen Partsch (Greens) first had to admit defeat in a battle vote for the place at the top of the state list of the North Hessian Bundestag member Bettina Hoffmann.
Philip Krämer, the state chairman of the Greens, was voted sixth on the list.
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After that, Wagner deliberately refrained from competing in third and fifth place against Kordula Schulz-Asche and Anna Lührmann from the Main-Taunus district. In the elections for places seven, nine and eleven, however, she also lost out to the much younger candidates Deborah Düring, the state spokeswoman for the Green Youth from Frankfurt, the lawyer Awet Tesfaiesus from Kassel and Kristina Jeromin from Wiesbaden. Wagner, who has been a member of the Greens for 40 years and has now been a member of the Bundestag for more than seven years with one interruption, only prevailed in the election for the unpromising 13th place on the list.
The Darmstadt Greens could only be happy about the result of the Darmstadt city councilor and Greens state chairman Philip Krämer. The 28-year-old, who is running as a direct candidate in the federal election not in his hometown but in the constituency of Odenwald, was elected to the promising sixth place on the list.
Wagner told the FR that she found the result “very unfortunate”, but she was basically convinced that defeats “are part of democracy”. There is no entitlement to office, said the 63-year-old, who now wants to fight to win the direct mandate against Astrid Mannes (CDU) in the Darmstadt constituency.
Hildegard Förster-Heldmann, member of the state parliament, who, together with Jürgen Deicke, leads the Darmstadt Greens district association, said that the 13th place on the list for the “outstanding specialist politician” Wagner was “unsatisfactory” from the point of view of the party leadership. In recent years, Wagner, who was state chairman of the Hessian Greens from 1999 to 2001 and from 2013 to 2017, has made a name for herself primarily as a traffic expert and has also devoted herself intensively to the topics of urban development and construction.
Nicole Frölich, the leader of the Greens in the Darmstadt city parliament, described the result as “very bitter” for Wagner. Wagner, Frölich and state party leader Krämer also expressed the assumption that the digital format may have favored the candidacy of younger applicants.
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