Leaders of Germany’s Greens to step down following election defeats

Co-leader Omid Nouripour said in a statement to reporters on Wednesday that the result in Brandenburg 'is evidence of our party’s deepest crisis for a decade'

Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang speak at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

The leaders of Germany’s Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, announced on Wednesday that they will step down after the latest in a string of disappointing election results.

The Greens’ support declined sharply in the European Parliament election in June. Voters ejected them from two state parliaments in eastern Germany in regional elections this month, most recently in Brandenburg on Sunday.