Free Vote Group calls for "Resolution" - G7 summit "didn't need it"
Created: 06/24/2022, 16:57
By: Christian Fellner
The G7 summit is planned for Schloss Elmau from June 26th to 28th.
The criticism of the meeting is getting sharper.
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The G7 summit will take place in Elmau from June 26th to 28th.
The criticism of the meeting is piling up.
A political push against meetings like this followed.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen – A few days before the G7 summit in Elmau, the tone is getting sharper.
Citizens vent their anger - on Internet platforms such as Facebook, but also in programs such as "Now red' i".
In line with this, there is now also a political push at district level to categorically reject events such as the meeting of the heads of government in the future.
The small group of three of the free voters Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Oberes Loisachtal in the district council, consisting of Lilian Edenhofer, Josef Angelbauer and David Schwinghammer, has formulated an application and demands a "resolution" against such summits in the district.
The district administrator should then forward this to the federal government.
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"Everywhere it sounds that people don't want something like that," says Edenhofer, the chairwoman of the group in the district council, which is independent of the faction of the free voters of the district municipalities and is only made up of representatives from the towns of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Grainau, Oberau and Farchant .
Angelbauer approached his colleagues with the idea of obtaining a political vote.
"Such large events create unreasonable burdens and restrictions," he argues in his letter.
Not only the Loisach and Isar valleys are affected.
"All other places suffer from the conditions that are imposed for the safety of foreign state guests." He cites homeschooling, the traffic jams caused by controls, but also the loss of sales in retail and gastronomy as examples.
"The few remaining guests are massively restricted in their leisure activities." The effects on nature and the landscape are also "unacceptable".
Aircraft noise, fences in the middle of nature, plus permanent lighting - the three district council representatives are satisfied with having to experience it all a second time.
Of course, Edenhofer knows that the district council has no decision-making power in such matters of national importance.
"But if we always say beforehand that we don't have a chance with something like that anyway, then we shouldn't have stood for election in the first place."
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Stephan Scharf, spokesman for the district office, confirms that the highest body in the district has little influence in this case. "The federal government certainly doesn't care what the district council decides."
"But if the federal government comes to the conclusion in a few years that it can only be Schloss Elmau for 2029, then we will probably not be asked." denies Edenhofer.
"Why?
It was all just imposed on him, he can't help it, he didn't apply for it."
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Speer himself holds back.
"Now let's do this summit first," emphasizes the political leader, "we have enough to do with that." Florian Streibl finds the timing of the advance a little unfortunate.
"I can really understand my colleagues," says the Oberammergauer, member of the state parliament and leader of the Free Voters parliamentary group in the state parliament.
"Perhaps it would have been better to wait and see how this summit went, instead of starting a rush job now." But the district councils deliberately chose the days surrounding the summit.
"We have to talk about it while the impressions are still fresh," says Edenhofer.
Therefore, the trio calls for the application to be dealt with in the district council on July 27th.
G7 in Elmau: "It wouldn't have needed this second summit, and certainly not a third"
Striebl is fundamentally very critical of the G7 meeting.
"Of course, this is an honor and appreciation for the region, but the pain that arises is sometimes greater." The summit is a burden, especially for the southern district.
Striebl himself was stuck in a traffic jam in front of Scharnitz at the weekend as he was returning from vacation.
"It wouldn't have needed this second summit, and we certainly don't need a third anymore," he says in no uncertain terms.
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Only: “Neither we nor the Bavarian state government decide where the summit will take place, Berlin alone does that.” Daniel Schimmer, municipal councilor of the Free Voters in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and district manager of the hoteliers, has little to gain from the initiative.
"I understand the approaches, but I don't think it will do anything.
We're not asked anyway.” With the best will in the world, he cannot imagine the federal government returning again.
"We would not have planned for this summit, but a place in Schleswig-Holstein."
Meanwhile, the G7 summit is getting closer.
A protest camp is set up in Elmau.
