Green Youth attacks Brantner: Pandering to the CDU?

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Four votes. That's how close it was in the end – AfD politician Tobias Rausch received four votes more than AfD and BSW combined in the vote. Green party leader Franziska Brantner called it "crazy" and "toxic" in an Instagram video. She did not name the CDU. That is exactly what her own youth organization has taken badly: the Green Youth accuses Brantner of pandering to the Union.

What Brantner said in the video – and what she left out

In the clip, Brantner called it "crazy" that Rausch received four more votes than AfD and BSW combined. That was "toxic," the Green leader said, because it sowed doubt among democrats about who had voted for him. She did not name the CDU specifically – and that very gap is now the trigger for the open dispute with her own party's youth.

Pandering to the CDU

Why the party youth of all groups is attacking the leader

The criticism does not come from nowhere: Henriette Held is federal spokesperson of the Green Youth and thus one of the most visible voices of the left-wing party youth. Her verdict is correspondingly clear. "After a day like yesterday, Franziska cannot bring herself to clearly criticize the CDU, even though people are yearning for clarity precisely now," Held said. The suspicion she connects with it boils down to a sharp formula: "Along the lines of: Better to govern with the CDU in the future than to show conviction."

What the Green Youth is now specifically demanding

Held does not stop at criticism. She demands that the party exert pressure on the Union and draw clear red lines. In one sentence, she sums up the position of the party's youth: "It cannot be that this CDU, regardless of which boundaries it crosses, has a free pass for cooperation with the Green Party."