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Election Sunday in North Rhine-Westphalia was a historic day. The Greens had their historically best election results on the Rhine and Ruhr, while the SPD had their historically worst. Should there be a black-green government, it would be dangerous for the traffic lights in the federal government.
North Rhine-Westphalia has voted – and now the Greens can choose with whom they want to govern. 18 percent, that’s almost three times as many votes as in the last state election. Participation in the government seems certain. That would be possible with the current Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst from the CDU. However, he has lost his coalition partner, the FDP, and the Liberals just barely got into the state parliament. Nikolaus Blome, head of politics at RTL and n-tv, says in the 275th episode of “Today Important”: “The double clap for the FDP and SPD is also a personal defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and FDP leader Christian Linder. Both have in NRW made a considerable election campaign and were still unable to turn the results around for the better.”
“And it will be really bad for the two of them if black and green, CDU and Greens come together in NRW for a government, because that would create a powerful counter-proposal to the traffic lights in Berlin with a view to the 2025 federal elections,” said Nikolaus Blome.
Weather expert: “We have talked the world beautifully”
Also a guest on “Today Important”: Germany’s best weather presenter. That’s no exaggeration, he actually got this award: Sven Plöger. The studied meteorologist has been moderating the weather in the first for 20 years and talks about the climate crisis in particular after the strong victory of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia: “Climate change will make all our other problems obsolete over the years and decades if we deal with it don’t bother.” In Germany in particular, it would be necessary to reduce CO2 emissions: “We Germans are sixth in terms of emissions, ahead of 194 countries. That means 188 countries emit less than we do.”
There are actually plenty of plans that could actually be used to tackle the climate crisis. But Germany has made itself too comfortable with its prosperity, criticizes the meteorologist. “The fear of losing one’s own prosperity is so great among so many people that we start to talk the world nice to ourselves.” Especially in 2019, when Friday’s for Future was booming, more SUVs than ever before were sold and more flights booked than ever before. That is why Sven Plöger calls for more global justice in the fight against climate change in an interview with “Today important” host Michel Abdollahi: “We must create a world with global framework conditions where those who pollute the environment cannot become richer than those who pollute them keeps clean.”
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Source: Stern
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