In the last days of an electoral campaign dominated by immigration, the new potential adviser to the largest pollutant of Europe sought to assert voters that the Ministry of Economy will not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, the main conservative candidate Friedrich Mirz He was published on social media that he will lead him “a person who realizes that economic policy is more than being a representative of heat pumps.”
The climatic movement barely appeared on the campaign’s path before the federal elections in Germany on Sunday-except when the right-wing parties use it to pass in the vegetables. At the end of the Tamer, Jab Mirz was from the attacks targeting the candidate of the Green Party, Robert Habik, Minister of Economy and Climate who pushed a non -popular law to promote clean heating, but a sign of the extent to which political conversation about climate work has shifted.
The right -wing politicians and the right -wing green of the Green of turning Germany to “show environmental” of policies that limit the burning of fossil fuels or require the public to change their behavior. In a fiery speech on the day before the elections, Mirz said he would do politics, “for the majority that can think straight, which also has all its marbles … and not for any green oxading.” Mirz later said he was specifically referring to anti -friendly demonstrators.
It is far from the 2021 elections, as all parties prevented the far -right AFD from adhering to their climatic credit papers by adhering to cleaning the German economy by the middle of the century and preserving the planet from heating 1.5 ° C (2.7 and) over the pre -industrial levels.
Through some measures, the Greens survived a shift in the German climate speech that climate activists callThe charming chase“They had a smaller decrease in the voting share of their former coalition partners, FDP in the market, and Centre-Left SPD, despite years of political beatings and a decrease in the public interest in climate work. They also lost more votes on Sunday than They did in the European elections last year, as it decreased slightly from 15 % to 12 %.
However, the result, which is likely to leave the vegetables excluded from a future alliance, is additional evidence that the green wave that has been swept Europe A few years ago it was strange, not the new natural. The Greens have been expelled from the government in Austria, Belgium and Ireland in recent months, echoing a modern direction for the occupants of all the political lines punishable in the polls. In Germany, young voters in particular abandoned the party in large numbers for the refreshing appearance (left), which won 1.2 million voters of vegetables and SPD.
Regarding some charges, DIE Link’s climate policy is more ambitious than vegetable policy. The party wants Germany to reach climate neutrality by 2035 – in line with the demands of activists such as Fridays in the future – and emphasizes the need for fairness in energy transmission. Snap analyzes indicate that its unexpected success is driven by targeting young progressive and managing a very successful social media campaign.
“The left focus on a progressive campaign focusing on their basic issues such as high rents and high cost of living,” said Jessica Hack, a political scientist at Hamburg University. This also contributed to their relatively strong performance in urban centers, as the vegetables usually receive great support.
“In contrast, the Greens adopted a more moderate position, especially with regard to immigration issues – which have sparked internal criticism, especially from the left wing of the party.”
Although the climate played a simple role in voting decisions, the result seems likely to slow down the speed of energy transmission in Germany. AFD, which rose to second place with 21 % of the sounds, publicly denies the climate crisis. She was withdrawn against other parties to follow the “left green” ideological agenda and its co -leader, Alice Widel, wind turbines recently described as “air mills of shame.”
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The elections winners, the right -wing CDU/CSU, committed to climate neutrality by 2045, but they photographed AFD opposition to policies to get there. They attacked the vegetables greatly for the efforts made to gradually get rid of gas boilers and combustion engine cars, or reduce pollution on farms, and blame them for economic struggles in the country.
At a meeting in Berlin last month, German conservatives led a batch of the European People’s Party in the center to tear green financing laws and agricultural rules as part of their opposition to “excessive organization and bureaucracy.”
Payment to weaken climate and energy policy in the name of competitiveness can conflict with Europe’s efforts to increase its independence from Russia and China – Mirz said in an electoral debate on Sunday – the United States.
Monon Duofor, head of the Brussels Branch in the Climate, said that climate work will be a “essential pillar” of any credible strategy for security and flexibility. She said, “Germany can work as an engine for Europe, which helps to formulate a road towards security and flexibility. It can also act as a brake, which makes it parked,” she said.
