The leader of the Green Party of Schleswig-Holstein, Anke Erdmann, appeared confident ahead of the European elections in June, despite the tense atmosphere in the country. “We simply shape the political agenda,” Erdmann said Saturday at a state party conference in Neumünster.

The Greens wanted to change something and were therefore a real threat to the Nazis, right-wing populists and the gas lobby. Also, hitting it gives you click numbers. They are not the richest party. “But we were never that many.” The Greens now have more than 6,000 members in the north.

Erdmann says Greens are currently victims of “hatred and unrest”

In the 2019 European elections, the party came first in Schleswig-Holstein with 29.1 percent for the first time. “The bar is high. Five years ago we had a lot of wind at our back,” said Erdmann. But the party can also do a lot when there is a storm. In general, the mood in the country has changed.

“Overall, the tone has become very harsh.” Party members receive insults online and in real life: “The turn to the right, hatred and incitement, a hybrid war that is based on insecurity.”

Ricarda Lang and Rasmus Andresen are scheduled for Sunday

The Schleswig-Holstein Greens want to debate current issues until Sunday. It began with a general debate on the participation of the government itself at the federal and state levels. Before the midterm of the legislative period in the north, the party wanted to take stock.

On Sunday, in addition to the president of the farmers' association, Klaus Peter Lucht, and Kirsten Wosnitza from the working group on rural agriculture, party leader Ricarda Lang and Green MEP Rasmus Andresen are expected.