The Green Youth is demanding more decisive crisis measures from the traffic light government, such as a rent cap and an excess profit tax. The government all too often lags behind the burdens, said the later re-elected federal spokeswoman Sarah-Lee Heinrich on Saturday at a federal congress of her organization in Bielefeld, according to the announcement. "When, if not this winter, is a better time to introduce a nationwide rent cap."

The traffic light policy is insufficient. "Our task is to take to the streets together with our allies this autumn and winter and say: Enough is enough!" explained Heinrich. "If we don't want to fight crisis after crisis, then we have to dare to question the system that, through its excessive exploitation of people and nature, is constantly throwing us into new crises."

Consistent climate protection required

The co-federal spokesman Timon Dzienus, who was also confirmed in office, called for a more consistent climate protection policy and called for the socialization of energy companies. "People's basic needs are not good for corporate profits," he argued.

The so-called federal spokesman of the Green Youth are elected for a period of one year and can be re-elected once. A request to change it was turned down. For Heinrich (21) and Dzienus (26) it is the last term of office.

The around 700 participants in the federal congress campaigned in their leading motion for the continuation of the 9-euro ticket and called for the suspension of the debt brake for 2023. They argued that this was the only way to finance the necessary expenditure in the crisis.

The Green Youth is close to the left wing of the party and has more than 18,000 members. Of the 118 Green MPs in the Bundestag, 27 are representatives of the youth organization.