In order to deal with the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the CSU demands simplified procedures from the traffic light coalition for the expansion of renewable energies and the continued use of nuclear power. The traffic light coalition’s decision to only let the nuclear power plants run until April 2023 is “a transparent ideological compromise to save the divided left-liberal coalition” and a “dramatic wrong decision for our country and for climate protection,” according to the main motion, which was published on Friday to be decided at the party conference of the CSU in Augsburg.
The eleven-page paper entitled “With a clear course through the crisis. We protect Bavaria. For a strong future” was sent to the party executive on Thursday and is available to the dpa in Munich. In essence, the paper summarizes all the points of criticism that the party’s representatives have been emphasizing for months. At the same time, the CSU presents itself as a political counter-proposal with a view to the 2023 state elections.
Specifically, the CSU accuses the federal government of having failed in the current crisis: “In view of these challenges, Germany needs political leadership.” The traffic light is lost in ideological trench warfare, self-reflection and waiting. “Companies and consumers are not interested in the founding myth of an anti-nuclear party, but rightly demand that existing problems be solved and that the framework conditions for the economy, work and prosperity be set.”
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At the same time, the application calls for the federal government to increase funding for base load geothermal energy and to set up a decentralized battery storage network for electricity from photovoltaic systems. In order to protect prosperity and the economy in Germany from the crisis, every form of energy that exists must be used: “Because the supply shock and the resulting massively increased prices will in all likelihood continue in the winter of 2023/24 or even intensify , one thing is clear: everything that can be done must be connected to the network!” Nuclear power plants would have to remain connected to the grid at least until the end of 2024, and all coal-fired power plants would also have to be used.
In the future, the CSU is in favor of working together more closely at European level – both in the expansion of a hydrogen network and in the expansion of renewable energies and for access to raw materials.
The supply chain law, which was once also negotiated by the CSU and will apply from 2023, should not come into force, the paper goes on to say, nor should there be “new bureaucracy in the implementation of working time recording”, a property tax and diesel driving bans. The CSU sees the introduction of citizen money as a big mistake: “It’s unfair because it upsets the balance between performance and solidarity.” Rather, what is needed is a reduction in corporate taxes.
