Bavarian Green Bundestag member Anton Hofreiter criticizes CSU chairman Markus Söder’s repeated warnings against a black-green coalition after the Bundestag election. It’s still the voters who decide which government constellation comes to power, Hofreiter told the Spiegel.
“Söder’s constant exclusion of coalition options is a dangerous game” Hofreiter said. “He ignores the will of the voters and strengthens the right-wing extremists.” A look at Austria shows what happens “when the democratic parties are no longer willing to come to an agreement” the head of the European Affairs Committee in the Bundestag said.
At the same time, Hofreiter criticized the CSU’s decision to build base-load power plants for energy supply. This would force Germany and Europe into new dependencies. “Economically, it will only make sense with cheap fossil fuels from Russia. Instead, we must ensure a stable and independent energy and heat supply through the expansion of renewable energies” Hofreiter said.
CSU chairman Söder had stated on Monday at the start of the three-day conference of the CSU state group in Seeon that a “genuine political and government change” was not possible with the Greens. The German public thinks “more conservatively than ever” but gets “increasingly left-wing governments.” He had “no desire to be a balance wheel for some populists” in the end, Söder said, looking at neighboring Austria, where the FPÖ has received the mandate to form a government.