{"id":52490,"date":"2025-09-14T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/greens-must-be-alternative-to-shift-to-right-in-germany\/14\/09\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:14:16","slug":"greens-must-be-alternative-to-shift-to-right-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/greens-must-be-alternative-to-shift-to-right-in-germany\/14\/09\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens must be alternative to shift to right in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chairman of Germany&#8217;s Green Party, Felix Banaszak, views his party&#8217;s poor performance in the local elections in the country&#8217;s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday as a result of a fundamental political shift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Ecological, progressive politics are currently having a hard time,&#8221; Banaszak said on regional public broadcaster WDR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the Greens, he said, it is now important to embody a &#8220;credible alternative to this fundamental rightward pressure in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_5gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_5gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_5gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_9gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_9gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_9gt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The question, he added, is: &#8220;Who gives people hope and confidence, who do not want to just stand by and watch everything drift in such a direction as we are experiencing in the US?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an initial forecast, the Greens suffered significant losses in the local elections and can expect 11.5% of the votes statewide. 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