Wolfgang Hampel, author of 'Satire is my favorite animal' - according to many critics and readers, one of the most humorous books of all time: "What do former Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Greens have in common: Zero self-criticism! They did everything right!!!!!!

Wolfgang Hampel, author of 'Satire is my favorite animal' - according to many critics and readers, one of the most humorous books of all time: "What do former Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Greens have in common: Zero self-criticism! They did everything right!!!!!!"---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tagesspiegel Where's the self-criticism?: Despite losing power, the Greens praise themselves at their party conference Felix Hackenbruch • 11 hours • 3 minutes reading time The small party conference was supposed to be about reviewing the disappointing election campaign. But how the Greens ended up in opposition doesn't seem to even Robert Habeck know. Even six weeks after losing the federal election, Robert Habeck doesn't really have any answers. "I still need a little time to think," says the Green Party's candidate for chancellor, who led his party to only 11.6 percent of the vote in the federal election, thus leading it into opposition. "Mistakes were made," says the still-Vice Chancellor, but he doesn't say which ones he means. The Green Party's small party conference was supposed to be about reviewing the disappointing election campaign. After only three and a half years in government, the Greens have already had to switch back to opposition. But Robert Habeck, and not only, seems to be unaware of how they ended up there. Even in her welcoming address, political director Pegah Edalatian praised the election campaign, which the Greens had conducted "with poise and self-confidence." Thousands of new members, a motivated base, packed arenas. The Greens had "fought their way up," Edalatian believes. Habeck criticizes the other parties' election campaigns Other top officials also praised the election campaign this afternoon – after all, it was the "second-best result" in the party's history. Self-criticism only comes in homeopathic doses. The executive board's resolution was passed unanimously. Habeck's analysis from the day after the election, when he said the Greens' offering was "top-notch," but demand "not so great," likely still holds. And so Habeck remains similarly uncritical in Berlin's Westhafen district. Instead, he criticizes the election campaigns of other parties, especially the CDU/CSU. He claims they conducted a "feel-good campaign" or blamed others for everything. "But when you take on responsibility, the problems don't go away," said Habeck, who showed no doubt about his campaign style—"speak what you see." We have followed the shift to the right. The party's left-winger, Svenja Borgschulte, criticizes the Greens' migration policy. But there were also critical voices at the small party conference, primarily from the left wing. The spokesperson for the Federal Working Group on Migration and Refugees, Svenja Borgschulte, criticized Habeck for his ten-point plan on migration. "We have followed the shift to the right," she says. The Greens have participated in the "bullshit bingo" of deportations and harsh treatment of refugees, thus abandoning their core brand as a human rights party. The spokesperson for the Green Youth, Jakob Blasel, expresses his displeasure most clearly: "What the hell else has to happen for this party to admit that its current course isn't working?" he says, pointing to the Greens' poor performance among young voters. He believes the Greens need to pursue left-wing policies, especially for younger people, and mentions the 9-euro ticket, a rent cap, and climate funds. However, these points aren't really surprising. Hardly a speech without attacks on Merz Just as there isn't widespread criticism of Friedrich Merz. Hardly a speech in which the CDU leader and potential next chancellor isn't attacked by the Greens. Merz's breach of promise regarding the debt brake primarily benefits the AfD, criticizes party leader Franziska Brantner, who also accuses the conservative of neglecting Europe. Her proof: The leaked coalition defense document doesn't even mention the word Europe. The most powerful speech at this party conference, which lasted only three and a half hours, was delivered by the woman who had already taken center stage in recent weeks: parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge. The party's left wing warns her fellow party members against "only going left" on migration issues in the opposition. She admits that voting against a common European asylum system two years ago was a mistake. Dröge cites two more specific mistakes from the past few months: "With regard to the heating law, we should have gone to the kitchen tables first and then to the boiler rooms," says the 40-year-old. "Above all, we were too nice." The Greens must become more defensive against CSU leader Markus Söder, Merz & Co., says Dröge.