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The European Green party has picked Terry Reintke and Bas Eickhout as lead candidates to front its campaign ahead of elections in June that polls suggest will result in it losing seats.

Flanked by green banners bearing the word “courage”, the two MEPs, who were elected by delegates at a congress in Lyon on Saturday, said they would stand up to the surge of the far right and fight for a more equal and ecological Europe.

Reintke, a German MEP who won 55% of the vote for lead female candidate, said she wanted to put social justice at the heart of the election campaign.

The Greens rode a wave of public support at the last elections in 2019 after students staged protests for climate action and a UN report found countries must hit net zero emissions by 2050 to keep the planet from heating 1.5°C (2.7°F).As far-right parties have grown more popular, and the Greens have lost support in big countries such as Germany, delegates at the congress said they expected to shed some seats in the European parliament.

Reintke and Eickhout beat Benedetta Scuderi, an Italian from the Young European Greens, and Elīna Pinto, lead candidate of the Latvian Progressives party.

She added: “Confronting this anger, making it into something constructive, but also looking at the apathy that a lot of people feel, and how we can turn that into something positive – that is a challenge we are facing in the election that I want to take on.”

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