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Who is Annalena Baerbock, who could lead Germany

She could become the youngest chancellor ever. Annalena Baerbock is the candidate for the Green Chancellery in the federal elections in September. Forty years old, the daughter of a pedagogue and an engineer, mother of two girls, she was born in Lower Saxony, and grew up on a farm in a small village near Hanover.

Yes is graduated in political science in Hamburg and studied international law at the London School of Economics, then worked as an assistant to an environmental deputy in the European Parliament.

She moved to Brandenburg, where she was regional president of the Greens for four years before joining the Bundestag. She now lives in Potsdam with her husband and daughters.

Tell us that she would have liked to be a war correspondent for a newspaper, but in 2013 he interrupted his PhD on natural disasters and humanitarian aid and started devoting himself to politics full time. Elected to the Bundestag, she dealt with the climate, economic policy, energy and child poverty with dedication and diligence.

She has no government experience, she has never been “chancellor or minister, but I am ready for the challenge,” she said. And to those who pinned her inexperience, she replied: “I am applying for change, politics thrives on this. The others are for the status quo ».

Annalena Baerbock is also known that, in the past, she was aathlete in the trampoline: won a bronze medal at the German National Gymnastics Championships. The candidate tends to “a politics that knows how to look ahead and dare more, knows how to make difficult decisions, but also knows how to remain human, empathetic and listen to citizens”, and with the opponents, from her point of view, “we work together, not against each other “, for” a strong Europe “, which” will have to adopt clearer and more determined policies towards authoritarian countries “.

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