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KIEL, Germany This isn’t quite how Robert Habeck hoped he’d be spending the summer before Germany’s general election.
The Greens’ co-leader is on the campaign trail but keeping it low-key and local in his northern home state of Schleswig-Holstein rather than headlining the party’s national campaign as its candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor.
Habeck, a former environment minister and deputy premier of the state, has been open about how hard it was to lose out to his fellow co-leader, Annalena Baerbock, as the Greens’ nominee for the top job.
That decision has placed him in a delicate and at times awkward role in the run-up to the election on September 26: Habeck is expected to campaign hard for the party and its candidate even as she has stumbled through a series of gaffes but must also avoid anything that could be seen as upstaging Baerbock.