Leaders of Germany’s Greens resign after state election defeats

Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang announce their resignation in Berlin. They are to remain in post until November, when new leaders will be elected. Photograph: Fabian Sommer/AP

The leaders of Germany’s Greens, partners in the embattled central government of Olaf Scholz, have announced their resignation, saying that a series of election defeats requires a radical reset.

Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, joint leaders since 2022, said on Wednesday that the environmental party, a trailblazer in Europe and the first to have MPs elected to a national parliament, faced its deepest crisis in a decade after the result of the Brandenburg state election on Sunday.