The long -term Berlin CDU politician Thomas Heilmann has been re -elected as chairman of the climate launch.
Heilmann stands since March 2022 at the head of the associationin which members of the CDU and CSU have come together who want to implement concepts for the way to climate neutrality in municipalities, countries and in the federal government. He received in the election of the federal board in Mannheim 91.3 percent of the voteas the climate launch announced.
The lawyer was among others from 2009 to 2017 deputy state chairman of the Berlin CDUfrom 2012 to 2016 Justice Senator and from 2017 by 2025 CDU member of the Bundestag member With constituency in Steglitz-Zehlendorf.
Successful with an application against accelerated heating law
Together with other MPs, he outlined his ideas about climate policy under the heading “Green Null” before the Bundestag election 2021 and called for one, among other things Higher CO₂ price and faster approval process for renewable energies.
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Nationwide, Heilmann made headlines in 2023 through his successful application to the Federal Constitutional Court against the accelerated heating law of the traffic light government.
“We will also be with a CDU-led federal government continue to pay attention to an effective climate policy And defend the European emission trade, “said Heilmann in Mannheim.” It comes to Germany, Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz that this historical question of climate protection is not answered incorrectly. “
As Heilmann’s deputy became Wiebke Winter confirmed with 95.7 percent of the vote Member of the CDU federal executive board is. The climate launch was founded in 2021 and claims to have more than 1000 members, including around two dozen members from the European Parliament, the Bundestag and the state parliaments. (dpa)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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