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SPD: Comrades quarrel with climate package of the Federal Government

2019-09-22T17:49:40.802Z


Success or setback? The SPD is having a hard time with the climate resolutions of the Federal Government. After all: The GroKo agreement could revive the competition for the party leadership.



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Olaf Scholz and Karl Lauterbach embody the two extremes in the SPD gleaning on the climate package of the Federal Government. Scholz, Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor, negotiated the decisions of the Federal Government and praised them as a "big hit". Lauterbach, member of the Bundestag and advocate of an exit from the grand coalition, spoke before the agreement of a "fatal signal" and "expensive botch".

Now puts Lauterbach, who runs for Nina Scheer for the SPD presidency, after: "The result is still significantly worse than was to be feared." The CO2 price, as the Federal Government seeks, is "below the threshold of effectiveness". The health expert compares the plan to start in 2021 with a price of ten euros per ton of CO2, with a drug that is so low doses that it could never work.

Lauterbach's conclusion: "It is by no means worth the decisions that we will stay in the GroKo for another two years." What's more, in order to achieve effective measures for climate protection, the country needs "a ten-year break between the CDU and the CSU". A clear signal to the Greens to enter into a Left Alliance.

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SPD: These comrades want to become party leaders

Other candidates for the party presidency formulate their criticism of the climate package more cautiously. But also the duo Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans are dissatisfied with the decisions. The package is not socially fair, from the increase in commuter allowance, for example, low-wage earners have nothing. The SPD should not pretend that it had prevailed. Instead, one must make it clear that more with the Union is not possible, says Walter Borjans. "GroKo does not create a future, GroKo has no future," says Esken.

With the Climate Package, the nationwide SPD Regional Conferences, in which the applicant couples present themselves for the party leadership, finally have a bigger, more emotional topic. Already at the meetings in Neubrandenburg on Friday and in Neumünster on Saturday it was disputed. For the remaining eight conferences, the climate package should also be a topic of discussion.

The conflict does not only fuel the candidate race of the SPD. He also fuels the inner-party debate about the GroKo. Together with the basic pension, which seems to be closer to an agreement with the Union, the Climate Change Act is an integral part of the GroKo mid-term review. Are there enough successes so that the SPD decides to stay in the coalition? Or is the massive, public criticism the tailwind that would like to end the alliance with the Union this year?

"Neither the damnation nor the cheering is right"

Olaf Scholz is relaxed. Together with Klara Geywitz, the Vice Chancellor is most clearly of all seven teams for the government's course. Scholz can prove his ability to act with the results. He wants to show that it is worthwhile for the SPD to stay in the GroKo.

But his course is risky. Many in the party can barely stand it when painful compromises are sold as if they have prevailed. "Neither the damnation nor the cheering of the climate decisions is correct," says SPD Vice Ralf Stegner. He also applies for the party presidency, along with Gesine Schwan. In order to lead the party out of the crisis, independent of coalitions, strong presidents are needed who are independent of cabinet discipline and government offices, according to Stegner. A clear tip against Scholz.

Christina Kampmann and Michael Roth also distance themselves from Scholz. In a three-sided assessment of the climate package, the candidates praise part of the agreement, but also write: "It would have been much more in it, if the black zero would not be such a mantra." The investments could be higher, with a climate premium as compensation the federal government could have set the CO2 price higher. "This is a clear weakness of the package," write Kampmann and Roth. The negotiators of the SPD deserved respect, they had achieved a lot, "but it is just not enough".

That could not only apply to climate protection - but also to GroKo.


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