(8 Feb 2025)
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Berlin – 8 February 2025
1. German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck entering a convention hall
2. Wide of people applauding
3. Close-up of German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (left) and co-leader of the political party, The Greens, Annalena Baerbock (right)
4. Wide of crowd applauding
5. Mid of Habeck and Baerbock
6. Mid of photographers
7. Audience applauding
8. Audience turns on flash lights on their phones for a big group selfie
9. Wide of Baerbock on stage
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister and co-leader of The Greens:
“We want this spirit, which can be felt everywhere on the streets in Germany at the moment, for people to take a stand, regardless of what party they might vote for on the 23rd, regardless of what car they drive or whether they drive at all. They are saying that now is the time to show our colors. And that’s how we do politics. To make it clear that we will not allow this free, beautiful and above all, liberal country to be destroyed. Germany is a strong country. Germany is a diverse country and Germany has strength, especially in difficult times.”
11. Mid of Habeck applauding
12. Wide of crowd applauding
13. Mid of photographer
14. Wide of Baerbock introducing Habeck
15. Close of Habeck
16. Wide of Habeck on stage
17. SOUNDBITE (German) Robert Habeck, Vice Chancellor and The Greens candidate for chancellor:
“Perhaps, and if we could make a contribution, we could create focal points, i.e. rooms, halls, debates, speeches, invitations. But nobody forced you to come here tonight. Nobody forced the hundreds of thousands to take to the streets. There is no law for optimism, for civil courage and backbone. This is happening from the depths of the country’s soul.”
18. Various wide of Robert Habeck
19. People applauding
20. SOUNDBITE (German) Robert Habeck, Vice Chancellor and The Greens candidate for chancellor:
“What is happening here can still change everything at the moment. The last 14 days. We know from the last election campaigns that the momentum of change always increases towards the end. People make up their minds very, very late and perhaps they only make up their minds in the polling booth. And we’re coming out of the traffic light era, where the polls were basically fixed, but so was the political mood.”
21. Wide of Habeck
22. Mid of woman taking picture
23. Wide of audience
STORYLINE:
Germany will hold an early parliamentary election on Feb. 23 after Olaf Scholz’s thee-party coalition collapsed in November in a dispute over how to revitalize the country’s stagnant economy.
The German Green Party leader, Robert Habeck is currently the Vice Chancellor and economy minister in the outgoing government.
The Greens are a small party that lost popularity in recent elections.
Recent polls show that its support has risen slightly again, giving it a fighting chance for third place against the Social Democratic Party led by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In the European Parliament election, the Greens slumped to 11.9% of the vote, losing ground among young voters in particular.
It is the mainstream conservative opposition that leads polls with around 30% and its candidate, Friedrich Merz, is the favorite to become the next chancellor.
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AP video by Pietro De Cristofaro
Production by Fanny Brodersen
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