Hans Moritz, editor-in-chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger. © Studio Mohr - Erding
The heating demonstration this Saturday could be a preliminary decision of the state election in Erding. Why, comments editor-in-chief Hans Moritz.
Erding - Four months before the state election, everything looks as if the traffic light parties will also experience a debacle in Erdinger Land on October 8. The heating demonstration this Saturday will be the first nail in the coffin.
The concept of the Erdinger Greens and the SPD was quite charming: a new, smart government in Berlin and on the ground, Laetitia Wegmann and Benedikt Klingbeil, two candidates who have just come of age, full of zest for action. You should be prepared to be burned out. The government is in a situation where it would need experienced political warhorses at the grassroots level. But maybe they don't even exist in Erding anymore.
The demonstration threatens to end the election campaign before it has begun. Because it will show that resentment, anger and incomprehension - unlike the Corona Monday walks - reach deep into the middle class.
The traffic light still does not want to succeed in explaining its (indisputably important) energy transition policy. Now it seems to be too late. Habeck & Co have made too many technical mistakes for that. The CDU/CSU and the Free Voters know how to use this to their advantage.
The traffic light policy was the first in decades that is not populist, that really demands something from people in the face of global warming. Reducing CO2 emissions remains an important goal for survival. But those who shut down nuclear reactors and prefer to continue using coal to generate electricity, to name just one example, are pursuing ideology instead of rational politics.
The second nail in the coffin will be the reform of inheritance tax. Because the same applies to them: In Erding, it will reach deep into the middle of the citizenry. In the suburbs of Munich, young families will run straight to the real estate agent with the certificate of inheritance and pass the tax office on the way back. There is nothing to be said against regionalising the allowances.
The joke of this development is that the CSU and FW will benefit from this, the very parties that have recently attracted little attention by taking care of the livelihoods on this planet. Above all, they are populists who stand for policies that do not hurt people at the moment (i.e. until the next election). The Austrian would say: It's going to work out.
