DCDU President Friedrich Merz warned against the Greens as ideological hostages in the dispute over the continued operation of German nuclear power plants. In view of the gas shortage, the remaining three German nuclear power plants would have to remain connected to the grid, Merz said on Saturday at the state conference of the Southwest CDU party in Villingen-Schwenningen (Schwarzwald-Baar district). Merz said that the whole world was stunned by the debate taking place in this country.
CDU Federal Chairman Friedrich Merz at the state party conference of the CDU Baden-Württemberg
Source: Silas Stein/dpa
Looking ahead to the decisions of the Green Party Congress in Bonn, Merz said that it was on the way to “taking hostage a Green Party which, for purely ideological reasons, is taking this sensible path that the vast majority of people in Germany consider sensible locked down – just so that the founding myth of this party survives this party congress unscathed”.
The traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP has been arguing for weeks about how to tackle nuclear power. On Friday night in Bonn, delegates to the Green Party Congress decided by a clear majority to keep southern Germany’s two nuclear power plants, Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2, in reserve until April 15 and continue to use them to generate electricity if necessary. necessary. The third remaining Emsland nuclear power plant, on the other hand, will finally be closed on January 1, 2023.
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