(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, SEP 25 - The co-leaders of Germany's
Greens party, which is part of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's
coalition government, announced their resignation Wednesday
following dire results in three state elections. Co-leader Omid
Nouripour said the ecologist party was suffering its "worst
crisis in a decade" after scoring vote percentages in the single
digits in three eastern state polls this month. "It is time to
put the fate of our party in new hands and we therefore ask...
our beloved party to elect a new leadership," he told a press
conference. In Thuringia and Brandenburg states the Greens
failed to cross the five percent threshold needed to enter
parliament, and in Saxony they just scraped in. Co-leader
Ricarda Lang said the party "needs new faces to lead it out of
this crisis" and oversee a "strategic reorientation" before
national elections that are a year away. Lang and Nouripour will
remain in place until successors are elected at a party
conference in mid-November. (ANSA-AFP).
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