Annalena BurbockBERLIN, Jan 29The convention of the Union 90/Greens party on Saturday elected Ricarda Lang, 28, and Omid Nuripura, 46, as new co-chairs to replace Robert Habek and Annalena Burbock, the vote at the convention will be supplemented by the results of the vote by mail until February 14, only then the new leaders formally Lang received 75.93% of the votes, while Nuripura received 82.58% of the delegates, according to the organizers of the congress, broadcast live on the party website.
In Germany, they told how Burbock «changed her shoes» on the issue of Russian gasFormer co-chairs of the Union 90/Greens party Robert Habek and Annalena Burbock thanked their party members for their joint work. According to the rules of the party, they could not keep their posts with the Greens, as they entered, together with the Social Democrats and Liberals, into the new federal government of Germany. Habek became Vice-Chancellor of Germany and headed the Ministry of Economy and Climate Affairs. Burbock became head of the German Foreign Ministry. Since 1993, Burbock, who was re-elected in November 2019 with 97.1% of the vote, has had the best result in the election of party chairman. Most of the delegates took part in the congress online. In her campaign speech, she called the participation of the Greens in the German government a «huge chance», stressing that politics should be based on «climate protection and social justice.» Since 2019, Lang has served on the party's federal board. She was involved in deciding on the controversial 2020 bonuses for the Greens headquarters workers and received 1,500 euros herself. The Berlin prosecutor's office is investigating the case. Nuripur is considered an expert in foreign policy, he was born in Iran and moved with his parents to Germany at the age of 13. In early January, he said in an interview with the Spiegel weekly that the decision to ease or tighten sanctions against Russia was solely due to the situation around Ukraine's borders. He also called the decision to build Nord Stream 2 a «mistake», emphasizing that the Green Party does not intend to interfere in the certification process of the gas pipeline operator, as this would be a violation of the law.
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