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Green chairman Baerbock:
Eleven fingers point to them
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Niels Starnick / Bild am Sonntag
Last Sunday evening, Annalena Baerbock, head of the Greens, denounced the situation of children in the pandemic in the "Anne Will" panel.
She told of youth welfare workers with tears in their eyes who reported about lost protégés that politicians care too little about.
“Every third child has psychological consequences.
And then nothing follows, ”said Baerbock.
Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who sat across from her, and CSU leader Markus Söder, who was involved, were confronted with an opposition leader who quickly held up to mistakes and failures: too few quick tests, too few air filters, too little vaccine.
What do you reply?
Baerbock himself provides the best answer: "At the beginning we all supported these measures very comprehensively in the eleven federal states, but we in the Bundestag faction also supported them widely." When the Green leader points to the federal government, almost eleven fingers point back to her .
Chancellor party on hold and real ruling party in eleven countries, critics and decision-makers - in the pandemic, the Greens are trying to be everything at the same time.
Left and FDP have a similar problem, but they will neither target the Chancellery in the federal election campaign, nor are they sitting in a comparable number of state governments.
That is why the Greens are finding it particularly difficult to find their role.
Sometimes their own people in the federal states fail to do what they demand in the federal government.
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