German Greens leadership quits after coalition's election setbacks

BERLIN, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The co-leaders of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition, Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang, said on Wednesday they would resign as leaders of the Green Party following the party's defeat in the federal state elections and poor opinion polls.

In the September elections in the eastern states of Thuringian, Saxony and Brandenburg, the Greens performed worse than in the previous