Germany is swooping. Temperatures in Colon and Hamburg hit 37 ° C (98.6 ° F) earlier this week. Radio stations are recommending how to face hot weather, commenting on the summer that the summer wave is very unusual. Climate change has to be blamed, they say. Its results have also been felt more and more eagerly in Central Europe.
Is this the ideal moment for greens to proceed in public debate on climate protection? The fight against climate change is their main issue, after all. But the party is dealing with the internal challenge. Two months after losing their position in the government, they are still trying to find out what their role is really, and how the best is to connect with people across the country – not on lease on the current heatwave issue.
Strategy paper by party leadership
Two co-presidents of the Greens Parliamentary Group, Brita Halman and Katrina Droz in Bundestag have pushed a strategy paper forward, stating how they wonder how Greens should move forward, they are now in protest, while emphasizing that it is not a reed leadership.
“We say, with great confidence, that leg was meaningful in the government,” Draws. “We have made the country more climate-plate, fair, more progressive. Now, however, there should be a redevelopment of greens in the opposition.”
But when some government decisions continue to create a ruckus between some greens, such as the new education minister of the Orthodox Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Karin Prain has banned civil servants from using the Ling-Tattha language-Houleman’s response. “Who is interested in this?” He said. “For those who are single parents, who have to do family and work, who are not able to bear a week’s holiday are very rare with the reality of their life.”
A twist for greens
In February, Germany’s election was a turn for Greens. The result was: he got only 11.6% of the vote, and the dream of another term in the government, perhaps in an alliance with the CDU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), died quickly.
After the election, the party’s Figureheads-Robert Habec, the Vice Chancellor and the Minister of Economy, and Foreign Minister Analena Berbock announced that they would step back from the front-line politics. Habeck is only on an ordinary member of Parliament, while Baerbock has been elected the next president of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She would go a long way from Berlin’s politics in September, leaving her seat in Bundestag.
There is a shortage of personnel in greens – exclusive in the past
The remaining green leadership figures say that they want to bring the party closer to the people. The co-chairman of the parliamentary party believes with the notion that a large self of the population sees great people as a party that prevents things. As an example, they cite the heating law of Habec, which became a PR disaster, which left the people with the notion that the greens theme was trying to force the theme to install an expensive heat pump, whether they could tolerate it or not.
Now, Greens want to do things differently – and what people have to say, to hear it better. This can prove to be difficult, though. Greens do not have enough workers, uniquely, to be able to reach people in the east of the country. Right now, the Green Party has really more members than ever – around 180,000 – but only 14,000 in all five states in the former EAS. And the number of active members is still small.
Government’s party more than opposition?
When a coalition of the new German government, CDU and SPD decided to supply new loans up to a trillion euro to supply the German army and to build new roads, schools and train stations, Greens approved it. They have flaws with hardcore support, the new government wants to give Ukraine in the war against Russia. In return for their support for the upcoming government’s plans, Greens managed to interact on additional funds for climate security in the coming years.
Perhaps, Dröge says, the core brand of greens: is a way to add a new approach to voters with climate protection. “People are suffering in summer. Older people need protection from it – from significant health risks. However, climate protection still does not occupy still. [central] This role should be, “he said about the policies of the new government.
But combating global warming is not a popular subject with voters right now. This is a difficult time for Greens, the former government party.
This article has been translated from German.
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