BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s environmentalist Greens have chosen co-leader Annalena Baerbock to make the party’s first bid for the chancellery in the country’s September election. Monday’s announcement came as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc tried to resolve a power struggle. The Sept. 26 parliamentary election is unpredictable, in part because the popular incumbent isn’t seeking re-election. Merkel vowed in 2018 not to seek a fifth four-year term. Recent polls have shown the Greens running second behind Merkel’s Union bloc. Baerbock, a 40-year-old lawmaker, says she stands for renewal while others stand for the status quo. In Merkel’s bloc, the governors of Germany’s two most populous states, Armin Laschet and Markus Soeder, battling for the nomination to run for chancellor.
Greens bid for German chancellery as Merkel’s bloc squabbles
