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“Senseless and invasive”: Wagenknecht wants to overturn the heating law
The dispute over the heating law flares up again after the traffic light coalition broke up. If Sahra Wagenknecht has her way, it should be overturned with a majority in the Bundestag.
Sahra Wagenknecht gives hope to homeowners who fear high expenses because of the heating law: The BSW founder has called on the other parties, together with her group in the Bundestag against the red-green minority government, to reverse the laws of the failed traffic light coalition.
At the top of their list is the Building Energy Act, colloquially known as the “Heating Act”, pushed forward by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens).
It is so controversial because many residential buildings in Germany are not suitable for converting to heat pumps – the houses are not sufficiently insulated and insulated.
Many homeowners, especially of older properties, therefore fear high investments or that they will no longer be able to afford their home. According to many critics, the law could lead to a massive loss of savings that were actually intended as retirement provision.
Wagenknecht told the editorial network Germany (RND): “The government is unable to act, but not the Bundestag.” She called the heating law one of the “most pointless and, in the long term, most expensive laws for citizens” of the past three years. “It doesn’t protect the climate, but rather represents the overreach of the state in wanting to rule right into the citizens’ boiler rooms,” said Wagenknecht.
The Union and AfD also want to abolish the heating law
There is currently a majority in the Bundestag to abolish the heating law, explained Wagenknecht. This majority should be used before a new election: “Because after that, in the worst case scenario, there could be a government with the Greens again, which would make withdrawal impossible.”
The new requirements of the Building Energy Act for “renewable” heating have been in effect since the beginning of 2024. The Union has been calling for an end to the Heating Act for a long time.
CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann had announced that he would stop the heating law if the Union came back into government. The AfD chairwoman Alice Weidel also wants to abolish the law, as she emphasized several times.
Linnemann said that all energy cost drivers must be examined. Instead, they want to “regulate the emission of climate-damaging emissions via the CO₂ price.”
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Source: Stern
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