Climate activist Henning Jeschke has ended his dry hunger strike.
Olaf Scholz is relieved on Twitter - the day before the election, the reactions are mixed.
Berlin - “The doorbell rang and it was Olaf Scholz's turn,” writes climate activist Henning Jeschke on Twitter, the evening before the general election. “He's committed to a public discussion about the climate emergency within the next four weeks.” With this, the 21-year-old wants to start drinking and eating again: “After 27 days of hunger strike and 7 hours without water - at the end of my strength - I am now ending the hunger strike. "And he adds:" Resistance is working. "
Together with five other climate activists, Jeschke had started to camp in front of the Berlin Reichstag building at the end of August and invited the Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and the two Chancellor candidates Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Armin Laschet (CDU) to a public discussion about measures against climate change push.
However, none of the three top candidates had agreed - Annalena Baerbock had called the activists according to media reports.
Before the Bundestag election on Sunday, the Chancellor candidate and the Chancellor candidates made their points clear again.
Hunger strike before the federal election: Henning Jeschke has already been to the hospital twice
It was Jeschke, who was on hunger strike until the end, who had already been taken to hospital twice for medical treatment, but then kept going.
Most of his fellow campaigners had already ended their hunger strike.
Most recently, Jeschke had reformulated his demand: After an ultimatum to the Chancellor candidate and the two Chancellor candidates, he only asked Olaf Scholz (SPD) to declare a climate emergency.
He reacted on Twitter to the end of the hunger strike: “I am glad that the strikers break off and drink and eat again.
Life comes first.
I stand by my interview offer after the election, I will stick to it. "
One day before the federal election, Olaf Scholz (SPD) received mixed reactions on Twitter
"I'm speechless! Now relax well, ”wrote a user on Twitter addressed to the two climate activists. Jeschke and his supporter mostly get praise for their stamina, but also hear concerns about their health. At the same time there are also voices accusing the climate activists of having chosen the wrong means for their cause.
The reactions to the call from Olaf Scholz are just as mixed: "If you, as Federal Chancellor, allow yourself to be blackmailed so easily, then good night ..... Helmut Schmidt was cut out of a different cloth," writes one user with allusion the hostage drama that former Chancellor Schmidt had to deal with during his legislative period.
One user points out, however, that the activists 'original conditions were not met: “No candidate for Chancellor has responded to the strikers' demands and is only willing to hold talks on their own terms: after the general election, individually and not in public.
Blackmail works differently. "(Kat)
