Omid Nouripour, the Green deputy chair of the Bundestag, sees the recent electoral success of his colleague Cem Özdemir in Baden‑Württemberg as a model for the party as a whole.
Speaking to the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland, he explained that the Baden‑Württemberg result offers a blueprint for how the Greens can again gain broader, majority‑driven support across Germany. “We don’t have to sound the same everywhere” Nouripour said. “Different federal states, milieus and life realities also accommodate different tones and priorities”.
Both Nouripour and Özdemir belong to the party’s realist wing. Nouripour praised Özdemir as a “masterpiece” poised to write history, emphasizing that Green politics can win majorities when it listens to people, aligns with their lived realities, and asserts a central role in society. A style that relies on trust, reliability, and grants top staff the necessary freedom, he added, could give the entire party new dynamism.