Who will become chairman of the Green Party?: Aline Trede gets involved

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Balthasar Glättli (51) had the toughest job. When he was elected party chairman in the summer of 2020, the Greens were at their peak. Maintaining this spectacular height was Glättli’s “mission impossible” – as we all know, he failed. Last fall, the Greens had to give up, their voter share fell by 3.4 percentage points to less than 10 percent. A debacle.

He was the face of this defeat, said Balthasar Glättli a few weeks after the bitter disappointment. And he announced that he would step down as party leader next spring.

No one summed up the fact that defeat can have a positive side better than Irish writer Samuel Beckett with his comeback mantra: “Try again. Failed again. It is better to fail.” When you have nothing to lose, all you can do is win. This is an excellent starting point for the future chairman of the Green Party. There is therefore great interest in the vacant position.

“I feel a certain obligation towards my party”

Bernese federal councilor Aline Trede (40) has a good chance of becoming Glättli’s successor. So far she has not taken any steps to give up her position as leader of the Greens. Now she tells SonntagsBlick: “I’m thinking about running for office.”

Trede’s strength: she feels the basics. While Glättli is considered an intellectual strategist, Trede knows how to inspire people on the street. She could bring back on board the young people who turned away from the Greens in disappointment after the climate elections because everything was going too slowly for them.

She likes being with people and wants to know how they are doing, Trede says. The affection is mutual: Trede has been receiving emails and phone calls from party friends for weeks, which motivates her to run for party chairmanship. “I feel a certain obligation towards my party,” says Trede. The timing was good and the task was much more satisfying than colleague Glättli had experienced at the time.

To date, no application letter has been received by the General Secretariat of the Green Party. The deadline is the first week of February. It’s not just Aline Trede who thinks about the holidays. According to reports, Lisa Mazzone (35) no longer rules out a comeback. After the Geneva woman surprisingly missed re-election as state councilor, Green Party hopefuls announced her withdrawal from politics. Since then, Mazzone’s resentment has subsided somewhat and she is seriously considering running for office.

She prefers to travel across the country

Greta Gysin (40) from Ticino, Marionna Schlatter (43) from Zurich, Florence Brenzikofer (48) from Basel and Franziska Ryser (32) from St. Gallen also have ambitions. For the Greens it is clear: Glättli must now be followed by a woman – or a mixed doubles. When you ask about possible male candidates, the name of the failed federal council candidate Gerhard Andrey (47) often comes up. The Freiburg National Council tells SonntagsBlick: “These are indeed thoughts I have in mind.” He will communicate about this in due course in the new year.

Aline Trede hopes for a large field of participants, for a real march. Unfortunately, there is a gentle tendency among Greens to let others go first. The mother of two children is looking forward to the end of the contemplative time and prefers to travel around the country. In the first weekend of January she visited the canton festivals in Uri and the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Solothurn and Lucerne are on the program a week later.

Want to run for party chairmanship? Maybe even in a power duo with Mazzone? Soon the cards will be laid on the table and the examination committee will be ready. The baton will then be handed over during the delegation meeting on April 6. At first she was just happy that politics was getting back on track, says Aline Trede. “I don’t like peace and quiet.”

Source:Blick