Green party faction leader in the Bavarian Landtag, Katharina Schulze, finds it wrong that the CSU excludes the Greens as coalition partners. “Markus Söder is cutting himself off at the knees” she told Politico news magazine.
By doing so, she said, Söder would primarily harm Friedrich Merz in his election campaign: “My analysis is that first, his own performance record doesn’t match up, and that’s why he likes to attack others. And second, he’s still upset that he himself wasn’t chosen as the Union’s chancellor candidate and is torpedoing Friedrich Merz’s election campaign in the process.”
The Greens will speak with all democratic parties, as if democrats can no longer talk to each other and already exclude each other, then there’s a massive problem in the republic, Schulze said. “If Markus Söder comes up with the nuclear option again, for example, that’s simply a dead horse he’s riding. The future is renewable, and we need to invest in it” the faction leader said.
Schulze defended the Greens’ chancellor candidate, Robert Habeck, who wants to allocate 3.5% of the GDP for defense: “What sets us Greens apart is that we acknowledge the realities and also know when we need to come up with decent answers to the new realities. And that’s what he’s doing.