The German Greens (the most influential Green party world-wide) don't have a single boss, and there is still significant party democracy. Of the top, there are two - to keep peace in the party, one from the "Fundi" wing, and one from the former "Realo" wing. The latter has been ominously renamed the "Reformer" wing.

Renewal of the post is coming. The fundis want to re-nominate the incumbent, Claudia Roth. Among the 'Reformers', there were two candidates, but 48-year-old Volker Ratzmann withdrew: his partner in life (another Green MP) is expecting their first child, and he chose father duties over a stronger political role. So the choice of MEP Cem Özdemir is now almost certain:

Özdemir would be the first top party politician in Germany with Turkish origins.

Özdemir was a shooting star of the Greens - until two relatively minor scandals concerning some suits he got from an advertiser, and flight bonuses. He paid it back and withdrew from leadership positions for a few years, but now the time was right to return.

(I am somewhat troubled with him on the image front: he seems to be the archetype of the superficial urban yuppie element in the Greens' base, with which lately propagandists both to the left and right try to fully identify the Greens.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}