2023-06-04 13:51:14
“If climate protection were easy, we might leave it to politicians like Markus Söder”
Ricarda Lang
Source: dpa/Bernd Thissen
At the state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian Greens in Münster, party leader Ricarda Lang made fun of Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder. For them, the last year and a half have shown the “brilliant failure of the fossil politics of the SPD, CDU and CSU”.
In the heating dispute in the federal government, the federal chairwoman of the Greens called on Sunday to have staying power and not just look at the next polls – with a dig at the Bavarian Prime Minister. “And if climate protection were easy, we might leave it to politicians like Markus Söder,” said Ricarda Lang at the state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian Greens in Münster.
According to Lang, the last year and a half with the war in Ukraine have shown the “brilliant failure of the fossil politics of the SPD, CDU and CSU”. Letting go of the new building energy law now with a view to the next election is not a solution. That would mean “that those who have a lot of money invest in heat pumps. And those who are tight on cash still rely on oil and gas heating.” They would be stuck with heating costs that are no longer affordable.
Lang said he was open to suggestions. “We are ready to think regarding improvements. But that presupposes that there are other ideas. So far, however, we have only heard what is not possible,” said the national chairwoman in front of more than 200 delegates in the Münsterland hall.
Greens: Heating law will be passed before the summer break
The Greens expect the Bundestag to pass the so-called Heating Act before the summer break. She assumes that the draft for the amendment to the Building Energy Act will be introduced in the Bundestag in the coming week, said the co-chair of the Green parliamentary group, Katharina Dröge. the “taz”. “Then we can finally talk regarding it objectively. The majority of people are in favor of a heat transition.” However, many are unsettled because they do not know what to expect.
“The law is pragmatic and social,” advertised Dröge. The Greens wanted to strengthen the social element in the parliamentary process. “I’m convinced that everyone is interested in getting back to constructive cooperation,” she said in view of the heated arguments regarding the law, including within the coalition with the SPD and the FDP. “And then we will pass the Building Energy Act together.”
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