The Saxon Greens are aiming for renewed participation in the state government despite poor poll results. "We need a stable and solid democratic government," declared lead candidate Katja Meier in Dresden. She accused the CDU and SPD coalition partners of conducting a "joint election campaign". "We are observing that the CDU and SPD are preparing a minority government," said Green Party parliamentary group leader Franziska Schubert. Together with Meier and Environment and Energy Minister Wolfram Günther, she forms the Green leadership trio in the election campaign.
Meier, who represents the areas of justice, democracy, equality and Europe as Minister of State in the cabinet, believes the CDU is faced with the task of fundamentally clarifying its relationship with the newly formed Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). "The SPD must also ask itself whether it wants to govern with a BSW."
