FILE PHOTO: Co-leaders of Germany's Green party Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, also candidate for chancellor of the Greens, present an immediate climate protection program at the Biesenthaler Basin nature reserve, in Biesenthal near Bernau, northeastern Germany August 3, 2021. Tobias Schwarz/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - The co-leader of Germany's Greens on Sunday defended the party's candidate for chancellor at next month's federal election, and brushed off suggestions that he should replace her after she made a string of costly mistakes.
The ecologists briefly surged in the polls to overtake Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc after they named Annalena Baerbock as their chancellor candidate in April, but have since waned.
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