The german Green Party has nominated
Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for Chancellor in the 2021 German federate election. She is the first candidate of the german Green Party with a serious chance of winning the office. She doesn't have experience in governance, but she is a member of the german Bundestag (parliament). Of course the "established" parties (CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP) are pointing that out, as well as her being a mother of two daughters and if she would be able to handle being Chancellor and mother at the same time.
A couple of thoughts on this:
1) She might not have experience in governance, but
Sanna Marin, the Prime Minister of Finland, who is even younger than Baerbock, was "just" Minister of Transport and Communications for half a year before her election, and it seems Finland is doing not that badly under her leadership
2) She might not have experience in governance, but
Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was "just" member of parliament before her election and was even younger when she was elected in 2017, and look at their track record in the global Covid pandemic
3) She might not have experience in governance, but
Donald Trump ... err, let's not talk about him, bad example...
4) Seeing how the CDU/CSU candidates were practically mangling each other over who should be their candidate it's refreshing to see the other prospect of the Green Party (Robert Habeck who is co-leader of the Greens with Baerbock) just announcing her candidacy without any fuss
5) Why does no one ask male candidates if they can handle being Chancellor and father at the same time?
6) In this day and age I think a young green female Chancellor as leader of one of the most influental countries on earth (I don't want to say powerful since that might be interpreted in the wrong way) might be good, seeing what we are facing in the world with climate change and so on
7) Her full name is Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock so there is a flurry of (ironic) tweets in german twitter about "see, those radical greens have sprayed her initials all over german cities beforehand"...