Leaders of Germany’s Greens resign after state election defeats

Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour call for reset as party faces deepest crisis for a decade' after Brandenburg result

The leaders of Germany's Greens, partners in the embattled central government of Olaf Scholz, have announced their resignation, saying that a series of election defeats requires a radical reset.

Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, joint leaders since 2022, said on Wednesday that the environmental party, a trailblazer in Europe and the first to have MPs elected to a national parliament, faced its deepest crisis in a decade after the result of the Brandenburg state election on Sunday.