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German Politics Is Upside Down
The formerly rambunctious Greens show harmony, the famously disciplined conservatives come close to civil war. Go figure.
Looks like one of them will be chancellor.
Photographer: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images
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One outcome of Germany’s federal election on Sep. 26 already seems very likely. A woman with intellectual heft and impressive trampoline skills, but no government experience, will become either chancellor or vice chancellor.
Her name is Annalena Baerbock. She’s one of two leaders of the environmentalist Green party and as of this week also its candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor.