The Green Party will hold the election with their state chair Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz as the leading candidate State elections 2026 in Saxony-Anhalt. The 48-year-old received 66 yes votes at the state party conference in Wittenberg. 13 delegates voted no and eleven abstained. This equates to 83.5 percent approval, while abstentions do not count for the Green Party.
Sziborra-Seidlitz is a member of state parliament and is primarily responsible for employment, social affairs, health and education issues for her group. In her introduction to number one on the list, Sziborra-Seidlitz said that anyone who wants to defeat populism must solve problems, for example in rural mobility and medical care.
“I want that Saxony-Anhalt believes in itself again,” said the Green Party leader. “Our country needs self-confidence and cohesion.” Sziborra-Seidlitz also criticized black-red-yellow state governments for declaring silence a quality feature.
The Green Party received 5.9 percent of the vote in the 2021 state election. The group currently has six members in Parliament. The party’s recent score was below five percent in two surveys, meaning the Greens would miss the chance to re-enter state parliament.
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