Abstract

This commercial for the 2002 federal election focuses on party chairman and incumbent Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer as the sympathetic driving force behind the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party. Fischer speaks directly to the camera and reacts to the image of the Greens as a party that is divided into “realists” [Realos] and “fundamentalists” [Fundis] and is therefore notoriously divided and unable to reach a consensus. Fischer counters this with his experience as Foreign Minister and recalls the principles of Green policy within the red-green government coalition. In the 2002 election, the Greens were able to record a considerable increase in votes compared to 1998 and thus secure the continuation of the governing coalition between the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens.