Most likely Ms. Annalena Baerbock will be the next Prime Minister of Germany. Photo: Reuters Earlier on April 19, the Green Party announced party leader Annalena Baerbock, 40, as the official candidate to run for the federal prime minister position in the election campaign in September. Baerbock is also the first woman of the Green Party to run for Germany’s prime minister and may also be the only female character in the German leadership race this year. Ms. Annalena Baerbock was born on December 15, 1980 in Hannover, has been a member of the German Federal Parliament since 2013 and has been co-chair of the Green Party since January 2018. In her first speech as a candidate for the Green party, Ms. Baerbock declared, her party is entering a new phase and “if we do well, it will be for the country.” Previous polls showed that the Green Party is still ranked second after the current conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU / CSU coalition, with a rating of about 22%, but higher than the rate Social Democrats (SPD). In German history from 1949 up to now, Baerbock is the second woman after the current Chancellor Angela Merkel to run for the position of Prime Minister of Germany. In addition, Ms. Baerbock is also the youngest candidate to run for this position.