Politicians from the CDU and FDP attribute the high approval ratings for the AfD to the policies of the Greens. State chief Kretschmann rejects this – and warns of developments in the political discourse.
Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) does not see his party as partly responsible for the AfD’s high polls. “I think that’s just a nonsensical statement,” he said in the summer interview with SWR Aktuell on the relevant claims. It is currently not known exactly why the AfD is receiving so much encouragement. It is irresponsible to speculate about this and to declare someone the “main enemy or main culprit”. “That’s exactly why it has so many voters, because we immediately turn everything into a cultural issue.”
The AfD has had high approval ratings in surveys for weeks – in Baden-Württemberg it was 19 percent in a survey by Infratest dimap on behalf of SWR. Politicians from the CDU and FDP accuse the Greens of being responsible for the high soaring with their actions, for example with the Building Energy Act.
Kretschmann, on the other hand, defended the Green Line, which aims to ban fossil fuels from the energy supply. “If you want to fight climate change now and not just talk about it, you’ll end up in people’s boiler rooms.” It is understandable and normal that people initially reacted with incomprehension. “They don’t think that’s funny at first.” Citizens wondered what it was about politics, how someone heats. But it doesn’t work without unreasonable demands, said Kretschmann.
Source: Stern
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