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Traffic light madness before the summer break
“The nerves seem to be on edge here” – the debate on the heating law to read
It’s good to laugh: After the heating law is only to be passed after the parliamentary summer break, the opposition around the CDU parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz has the upper hand.
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After the Federal Constitutional Court put a stop to the vote on the heating law, the Bundestag is today debating a law that will not be passed for the time being. The day’s developments in the Newsblog – with a slightly different view of politics on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The report hit political Berlin like a bomb: The Federal Constitutional Court stopped the vote planned for Friday on the Building Energy Act, also known as the Heating Act, in an urgent procedure. The court thus followed an application by CDU MP Thomas Heilmann. On Thursday, the government then announced that the law would not be passed until after the summer break. Previously, there had also been speculation about a special session.
You can read everything important in our news blog. Since the beginning of the week, we have been following the debate in the Bundestag on a law that has been dividing politics and the public for months. It has produced countless headlines, rounds of negotiations day and night and endless coalition squabbles. Practically all citizens are affected because the important question is: How should we heat in the future?
This week, the Building Energy Act, GEG for short, should finally be passed, literally at the last minute before the parliamentary summer recess. Nothing will come of it now. What is the coalition doing now?
Heating Act: A look at a political showdown
Chapter
Coalition wants to pass heating law after summer break
Constitutional Court stops heating law in summary proceedings
Christian Lindner introduces household
Impressions of the government survey
Jan Rosencrantz
The Bundestag has just rejected the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s motion for a “restart of the heating law”. Only the MEPs from the Union and Left Party voted for this, the AfD abstained.
“I admit it’s a certain challenge to return to everyday parliamentary fare after such an intense and emotional morning,” says CDU MP Josef Oster. And then in the plenum we are already in the middle of the next item on the agenda: the debate on passports and registration.
In other words: That was it for the time being from the Berlin heating madness.
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Jan Rosencrantz
This is exactly what Thomas Heilmann, the man who stopped the heating law with his urgent application, is demanding.
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Jan Rosencrantz
If you can’t accuse the Greens of one thing, it’s a lack of expertise. In 2012 she lectured at the University of Lüneburg on the subject of “Energy efficiency policy as a contribution to climate protection. Analysis of the implementation of the EU Buildings Directive in Germany (residential buildings)”.
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Jan Rosencrantz
“The discord, malice, night treading – should no longer be our style.”
Says Robert Habeck about the traffic light. More precisely, that’s what he said last night on ZDF. The Green Economics Minister sat there with Markus Lanz for a whole hour, as the only guest. What else did he say?
- About the Karlsruhe verdict: “No broken leg.”
- About the heating law: “I don’t want to say now, I only hear praise, but I hear a lot of satisfied voices.”
- About the impression that all partners ducked away (keyword Habeck’s heating hammer): “I didn’t feel alone there. Not at all.”
- About his fall from the most popular politician to the heating Habeck? “Of course it doesn’t matter. No one wishes to be a politician, to be unpopular in any way, or to lead their party in poll depths.
- And: If you are “a member of the government or a politician in order to be popular, you should stay at home right away”
- About the public appearance of the traffic light: “Yes, it’s good that we don’t always cover ourselves in glory in the presentation of this coalition and that there are always people who – to put it politely – brush against the grain, that’s the way it is. This is not good.”
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Veit Medick
CSU man Dobrindt sounds as if he had confused the plenary session of the German Bundestag with a beer tent. But acting at the traffic light is now also a nice through ball for the man from Bavaria. At the end of his appearance, Dobrindt simply does a small press review and reads out a few comments from the past few days to the government. By the way: He also quotes the star. Is Dobrindt possibly also reading this live report?
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Nico Fried
According to witnesses, Schrodi is said to have called the Union because of the mutton jump, saying that she was voting “with the fascists”. (Photo: dpa)
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Veit Medick
Oh, Alice Weidel – sure, she too. The AfD boss poisoned in the well-known manner against Scholz, the traffic light, of course also against the Union. A minute-long series of platitudes and crooked images, the “crowbar” is of course there, the “scarcity economy”, the “destruction of prosperity”. It’s all hard to bear. But also a bit suitable for today’s show. If you were to commission an AI to draft an angry speech – that would come out.
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Nico Fried
The parliamentary secretary of the SPD parliamentary group, Johannes Fechner, expresses “thanks and respect” to Thomas Heilmann for going to Karlsruhe (and inflicting a defeat on the coalition).
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Veit Medick
Merz sits down and gets big applause from his people. The Union MPs are visibly happy with him. Sometimes the boss is too emotional for them. Apparently it worked today. Even Paul Ziemiak, the former CDU General Secretary, who now works for Merz’s rival Hendrik Wüst in Düsseldorf, comes up to him and pats him on the back. For the moment, there is harmony in the Union.
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Veit Medick
The Christian Democrat has had bad weeks. This Friday he is in form.
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Nico Fried
Chancellor not there, Vice-Chancellor not there – Christian Lindner, of all people, is the only one from the traffic light triumvirate to listen to the opposition’s allegations about the heating law.
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Nico Fried
Something like that is rare: Because the SPD deputy Michael Schrodi was apparently abusive to the presidium and the Union parliamentary group because of the preparation of a mutton jump, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (also SPD) not only imposed a call to order, but also a fine. That costs the MPs just 1000 euros. Missing now in the holiday fund. Comment from Bärbel Bas: “Apparently the nerves are blank.”
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Nico Fried
276 yes votes, 382 no votes. Robert Habeck does not have to rush to the Bundestag.
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Nico Fried
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Nico Fried
Now explain again…
… how did you deal with the lawsuit before the Constitutional Court? Thomas Heilmann, the winner of Karlsruhe, in conversation with a Union colleague.
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