Annalena Baerbock as Moses with ten "bans": With this motif, the lobby organization provoked the "Initiative New Social Market Economy" (INSM) shortly before the Green Party conference last weekend.
Advertisements appeared in several large media, in which the INSM put partly misleading statements into the mouth of the candidate for chancellor: "You must not fly" or "You must not drive a combustion engine".
The INSM does not mind that this does not meet the demands of the Greens.
Press spokesman Florian von Hennet says in an interview with votes that it is a matter of "advertising escalation".
For the INSM, however, the reactions to the style of the campaign are likely to be more painful than the criticism.
As recently as last Friday, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations distanced itself from the complaint: "Personal degradation and the unsuccessful use of Christian symbols are not appropriate handling in the necessary contest for political content," it said in a message.
Employers' associations in the metal and electrical industry finance the INSM. The donors are still firmly on the side of the lobby organization, says Hennet spokesman. He also rejects the sharpest accusation, the use of anti-Semitic stereotypes: "We are still convinced that this advertisement does not contain anything anti-Semitic." for any form of anti-Semitism or anti-Judaism «.
Nevertheless, it is noticeable with what severity the industrial lobby is attacking the Greens' candidate for chancellor.
“That had to come from this› New Social Market Economy Initiative ‹, because they have actually been fighting climate protection for decades.” That's what investigative journalist Annika Joeres thought when she saw the complaint against Baerbock.
Joeres counts the INSM as one of the most powerful brakes on German climate policy.
Together with SPIEGEL editor Susanne Götze, she published a book about the »climate pollution lobby« last year.
In the podcast, she reports how the lobbyists work and why they are heard so widely in the CDU-led Ministry of Economics, for example.
The agricultural sector also exerts an influence on the federal government's climate policy, for example through the German Farmers' Association.
However, its general secretary Bernhard Krüsken sees his industry in a special role: Agriculture emits greenhouse gases, but is also suffering from the climate crisis.
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so-called carbon sinks help to bind CO2.
He believes it is justified that the sector is doing comparatively lightly when it comes to the climate targets.
Annika Joeres criticizes that significantly more could be done in agriculture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) does not seem to be interested in this.
This is a "huge success" for the agricultural lobby, says Joeres.
You can find the sources and links to the broadcast here.