STORY: In the hot phase, a few days before the date for voting in the elections for the House of Representatives in Berlin, the top candidate of the Greens, Bettina Jarasch, fully relied on the street election campaign. Among other things, Jarasch spoke to passers-by near a shopping mile in Berlin-Steglitz and emphasized their top issues for the repeat election on February 12. O-TON BETTINA JARASCH, GREEN TOP CANDIDATE FOR THE BERLIN ELECTION: “We want to make Berlin a green and fair city. And that means we have to rebuild the city in such a way that it is still worth living in even in the face of climate change, that the air is good. We need a turnaround in transport that creates safety for everyone and also achieves our climate goals. And we have to ensure that rents remain affordable. And in addition to affordable rents, there are concerns about rising ancillary costs, heating costs. We can only get this under control if we finally tackle with determination what the Greens have always been fighting for: an energy transition and a heat transition. And that is best driven from the Red Town Hall. That is why I would like to take the lead in the next one Government.” 54-year-old Bettina Jarasch is currently the Berlin Senator for the Environment. And in order to avoid further mishaps like the elections in September 2021 in the capital, a comprehensive administrative reform is to be implemented under her leadership. O-TON BETTINA JARASCH, GREEN TOP CANDIDATE FOR THE BERLIN ELECTION: “I would like to clearly distribute the responsibilities. That is exactly the problem that we had with the election catastrophe. The responsibility for the organization of the elections was not clear between the Distributed at state and district level. Something like this must never happen again. And there are hundreds of examples of this in this city. To do this, we have to tackle administrative reform, with clear goals. We will also have to take some issues off the districts. And that’s exactly why we can you only do it with the districts and with the administration and not without the districts and without the administration. Otherwise this administrative reform will fail like all previous attempts. And I don’t want that. The next administrative reform has to work.” In Berlin, around 2.4 million people are entitled to vote. According to the latest polls, the CDU is favored by voters in the federal capital with 23 percent, ahead of the Greens with 21 percent and the SPD with 18 percent. According to Infratest dimap, the FDP has a six percent chance of moving into the House of Representatives, while the left and the AfD have eleven percent. The main areas of dispute between the SPD, the Left and the Greens are housing and transport policies. Jarasch appeals to Berliners to vote. Because you are faced with a directional decision between the continuation of the red-red-green government and a so-called Germany coalition of SPD, CDU and FDP.