BERLIN — Germany’s Green candidate for chancellor Robert Habeck will step down from a leadership position after his party finished in fourth place in Sunday’s national election.
“I will no longer claim or seek a leading role in the Green Party’s leadership team,” Habeck said, without providing further details, during a press conference at the German Bundestag,
“I wanted more, and we wanted more,” he said about the party’s disappointing election result, though added he was proud of the “short and intense” campaign.
Germany’s conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, came out on top in the snap election, tilting the country to the right after years of a center-left Social Democrat-led coalition that included Habeck’s Greens.
This story is being updated.
