The science program "Quarks" asked experts how the parties' climate policy would fare in reality.
The FDP clashes with this ranking.
Cologne - There is not only the Wahl-o-Mat.
In addition to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, press publishers and the public broadcasters also publish decision-making aids for voters ahead of the 2021 federal election.
With such a contribution, the WDR has now drawn the anger of the FDP to itself.
In the current program of “Quarks”, the station focuses on the Paris climate agreement with its 1.5 degree target.
What intentions do the individual parties declare in their programs to stop global warming - and what is left of these promises if you calculate the concrete proposals of the politicians?
That's the subject.
WDR broadcast examines the parties' climate goals: "Surprise winner FDP!"
From minutes 17 of the program there was a ranking: Which party has the most ambitious climate protection?
“The winner is: the FDP!
We were also surprised, ”explains editor Lisa Weitemeier.
"If she actually goes through with her plans and makes a CO2 price for everything, all coal-fired power plants would be shut down very quickly and we would be much closer to climate neutrality very quickly," she continues.
Federal election 2021: “Quarks” program checks election programs and angered the FDP
Then the hook follows: “But we doubt that they would actually do so, because the FDP probably doesn't want Germany to have an electricity supply problem either.
So the FDP is actually in the penultimate place when it comes to climate protection.
Because the CO2 price is your only concrete measure! "
The FDP logo moves from number one to number five in the animation.
In sixth place is the AfD, which wants to get out of the Paris climate protection agreement entirely.
WDR counters FDP: Ranking was a comment within a factual contribution
The FPD was promptly outraged. “It's hardly bold,” tweeted Sebastian Czaja, parliamentary group leader of the FDP Berlin. Your climate policy spokesman Lukas Köhler raised
the charge
against the
picture
that the public broadcasters wanted to "manipulate" the audience. The FDP as the climatic ranking winner - that probably did not fit “into the editors' own view of the world”, FDP-MdB Benjamin Strasser also accused the journalists of manipulation.
The WDR does not allow the criticism to sit on itself.
The ranking in the post represents a comment by the editors on how realistic the implementation of these measures is, a spokesman made
clear
at the request of
Merkur.de
.
The "Quarks" editorial team spoke to experts in detail.
(These are listed by name under the Youtube video of the broadcast episode.)
The editors regret, however, that the comment section - at the end of a factual article - was not "clearly" identified.
Choosing the form of a ranking for this was probably unsuitable, the spokesman said by email.
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