Here is the best article I could find on this.
The Greens' surge in popularity comes after the party on Monday named co-chair Annalena Baerbock, 40, as its first candidate for chancellor. The nomination of Ms Baerbock, a centrist who advocates a greener economy and a tougher foreign policy stance on Russia and China, has been widely praised.
Hopefully the Christian Democrat Union won't be on top any more.
It's the special kind of fucked up you get when you are a) a very conservative country such as germany and b) also still have some tradition of workers rights baked into the national DNA:
Which lands you at a sizeable amount of people who vote for the SPD because their dad voted for the SPD, come as it may. It's genuinely a conservative position, it's just they're being conservative about coal miners and other types of good ol' manual labour that hasn't existed in this country in any sizeable population for about 30 years.