As of: February 15, 2024, 9:27 p.m
By: Laura May
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Federal Economics Minister Habeck is accompanied by angry farmers.
The mood is heated - Green colleague Trittin also sees Söder as responsible.
Floh-Seligenthal/Nuremberg – Farmer protests accompanied visits by Robert Habeck (Greens) on Thursday (February 15).
The Federal Minister of Economics was received by dissatisfied farmers both at a nougat factory in Thuringia and at a citizens' dialogue in Nuremberg.
In Thuringia, demonstrators with tractors blocked an access route to a factory owned by the nougat manufacturer Viba in the town of Floh-Seligenthal.
According to dpa,
Habeck was
already at the factory at that time.
An estimated 50 demonstrators held signs with slogans such as “traffic lights ruin agriculture.”
Occasionally participants shouted “lying press”.
Stefan Traeger (l.), CEO of Jenoptik AG, and Robert Habeck (Greens) visit Thuringia.
© Martin Schutt
Habeck is greeted by farmers chanting “Get out!”
According to the police, around 350 people also gathered at a citizens' dialogue in Nuremberg on Thursday to welcome Habeck with a loud whistle concert and chants of "Get out!"
They criticized the federal government's austerity plans.
Their posters had messages like “Stop talking.
Strengthen the economy now” and “We need actions, not sayings”.
The Bavarian Farmers' Association called for the protest.
“The Bundestag’s decision not to correct anything in the federal government’s plans to cut the agricultural diesel refund is a punch in the stomach for our farmers,” said association leader Günther Feißner.
He calls for taxes and duties to be reduced and bureaucracy and regulations to be dismantled.
He did not comment on the question of how climate protection should still succeed.
Trittin also sees Söder as responsible for the poisoned atmosphere
Habeck himself expressed resignation to the allegations.
It is currently the normal situation for federal ministers to be received with protests.
Demonstrating for your own rights is part of democracy and is important.
At the moment, however, he is not observing any good developments, but rather that there is little willingness to talk.
He sees the dissatisfaction, but protest has to lead somewhere.
“But if readings, discussion forums or political events can no longer be held and that is the purpose of the protest, then it prevents the conversation,” said the minister.
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The demonstrations on Thursday are part of the farmers' protests of the last few weeks.
The trigger is the federal government's plans to cancel tax relief for agricultural diesel.
The day before (February 14th), the Greens had to cancel their political Ash Wednesday in Biberach, Baden-Württhemberg, due to violent protests.
Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) criticized the rioters: Anyone who ignores the “rules of the game” of democracy, i.e. “factual debate of arguments” and “fair and constructive dialogue,” is leaving “the legitimate space of democratic protest.”
The Green Party member of the Bundestag Jürgen Trittin also blamed Markus Söder (CSU) for the escalation of the protests.
His polemical speeches against the Greens would poison political discourse.
(Laura May)