Germany’s Once Powerful Green Party Faces Existential Crisis

via The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
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For Germany’s long-successful Green Party the political situation is slowly becoming precarious.

Meanwhile, they are even approaching the five percent parliamentary hurdle. On Sunday, the opinion research institute Emnid presented its latest survey. According to the pollsters, the Greens are now on only six percent – the worst support the Institute has measured for the party in 15 years. Despite the current debate on the meaningfulness of polls, the survey is frightening for the Greens. Forsa and Insa also estimate only six percent support for the party. And in North Rhine-Westphalia, where a new state parliament is elected in May, the prospects for the Green Party are just as bad.

It is not so long ago that the Greens debated whether they were already a big people’s party. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 the polls saw them on 25 percent while the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg elected a green as Prime Minister. No one expected at the time that the party would fear failing to get into the next parliament by failing to jump the five percent hurdle.