Green Party politician Renate Künast defends her party’s planned abstention in the Bundestag’s trust vote. “Should we vote no? No, we shouldn’t. Should we vote yes? Given the whole situation, one can’t take it seriously” she said to RTL and ntv on Monday. “The Chancellor wants to be in the minority at the end, so we’ll do it that way.”
According to Künast, after the end of the grand coalition, “there’s a bit more freedom now”. They’re “breaking out of this rigidity”. For a time, only “the grand coalition, the grand coalition, the grand coalition” was said by right-wing extremism and right-wing populism, without differentiating anything. “One hardly recognized one’s own political color anymore.”
“Everything was put on the table, and the internet added its share, as well as some non-parliamentary groups that exert influence, including Russia, which would like to destroy everything here, especially in Germany.” And now, there’s a bit more freedom, so one can show one’s own political color, one’s ideas. “That’s why I believe there’s a lot of movement in it.