After Cem Özdemir won the Baden-Württemberg state election, the Green Youth asked the newly appointed premier to clarify his stance on several key issues. A demand document, reported by the “Handelsblatt” on Tuesday, outlines six specific conditions for Özdemir. The paper stresses that Özdemir’s campaign promised to make politics for the broad society of Baden-Württemberg, yet elections are meaningless if they do not deliver a government that pursues visible social policies.
One of the six demands is that Boris Palmer, the former Green mayor of Tübingen who left the party in a 2023 dispute, must not hold any position in the new state cabinet. The youth group argues that Palmer’s repeated racist statements are incompatible with the core values of the Greens, even though he remains an ally of Özdemir.
The document also calls on Özdemir to include a prohibition procedure against the AfD in the coalition agreement. In addition, the Young Greens insist that Özdemir’s future government will not support any tightening of asylum and migration policy in the Bundesrat. They further demand that the administration tackle wealth inequality and advocate for a nationwide rent ceiling.