climate policy
Haßelmann admits that the Greens have communication deficits
Britta Haßelmann, leader of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group. photo
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After the losses of the Greens in the Bremen election, parliamentary group leader Hasselmann is self-critical. In the personnel debate of the past few days, however, she follows the Minister of Economic Affairs.
Green party leader Britta Haßelmann has admitted deficits in communicating her party’s climate policy to the population. “Apparently we didn’t get that across sufficiently. You have to say that very self-critically,” said the Greens politician on Tuesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin” after her party’s losses in the Bremen elections. Necessary changes in view of the climate crisis would cause a lot of uncertainty. It is the task of the Greens to make it clear that with the necessary ecological change there must also be a social balance.
Mistakes were also made when it came to decisions about replacing the heating system and State Secretary Patrick Graichen’s personnel policy, said Hasselmann. “Where people make decisions, mistakes are made”. It is important to acknowledge this. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), among others, did the same. Graichen was involved in the selection of Michael Schäfer as the new managing director of the federally owned German Energy Agency (Dena), although he was his best man. The procedure for the post will be re-established. But Habeck sticks to Graichen. Haßelmann described this decision as correct.
Hasselmann admitted that there was no tailwind from Berlin in the Bremen elections. At the same time, it was primarily state reasons that led the people of Bremen to vote. The Greens slipped from 17.4 percent in 2019 to 12.0 percent in the citizenship election on Sunday.