The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, gave the Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (both Greens) and the entire traffic light coalition a bad report in the debate on the new heating law. “It’s all a bit exaggerated with the heating debate,” said the Green politician of “Zeit” according to the advance report on Wednesday. The heat transition is not the country’s biggest problem, and so “a few months” does not matter.
Habeck proceeded “too quickly” on the subject. “Politics is a very pragmatic event, you can’t bang your head against the wall,” said Kretschmann. “Proceeding with prohibitions in a complex structure like the heating systems is a ride on a razor blade.”
Kretschmann, who heads a black-green state government in Stuttgart, also questioned the way the federal government worked. “If I in my coalition allowed us to behave as publicly as the Berlin coalition does, then I would like to say that we wouldn’t last six weeks.”
The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg also criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in this context: “It is a main task of the head of government that a coalition works together.”
The Greens politician also expressed a lack of understanding for the attitude of the FDP in the heating dispute. “Ask the partner 100 questions about the heating law instead of making ten proposals for solutions, as the FDP does: what kind of politics is that?” he asked.
Meanwhile, the Greens are calling on the FDP to give in after the recent internal talks about the concerns expressed by the Liberals. The 77 questions asked by the FDP were answered “in great detail”, said the Green climate expert Lisa Badum of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. There is now no longer any reason to delay the legislative process. She therefore expects “that the FDP will clear the way for consultations in the Bundestag as soon as possible”.
SPD general secretary Kevin Kühnert also urged “prompt implementation” of the building energy law. People expect clarity and planning security, he told the Funke newspapers.
The SPD parliamentary secretary Katja Mast was confident: The talks at the level of the deputy chairmen were “very confidential and constructive – that makes me feel positive,” she told the “Rheinische Post”. “With good will” it is possible to pass the heating law before the parliamentary summer break. (AFP)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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