Alliance 90/The Greens
The elections for the 18th German Bundestag will be held in Germany on 22 September 2013.
Alliance 90/The Greens
Party leaders: Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir
Year of foundation: 1980
2009 election result: 68 seats
The politics of the Greens focuses on questions of ecology, civil and human rights and the democratization of society. When the Greens formed at the end of the 1970s, the party was concerned with taking the growing protest against environmental pollution, the dangers of nuclear energy and the armament policy of the time in East and West into parliaments. After German reunification the Greens joined with East German civil rights activists to form the joint party Alliance 90/The Greens (Greens) in 1993. From 1998 to 2005 they assumed government responsibility for the first time in a coalition with the SPD.
Dual leadership
Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Jürgen Trittin
Alliance 90/Greens
The Greens fill leading positions on the basis of gender equality – also their top election candidates: Katrin Göring-Eckardt, born in 1966, is Bundestag Vice-President and President of the Synod of the Protestant Church in Germany. Jürgen Trittin, born in 1954, is joint Chair of the Greens in the Bundestag with Renate Künast. He was Environment Minister from 1998–2005.
