Deputy CDU chairman Carsten Linnemann hopes that Markus Söder’s proposal to continue operating the Isar 2 nuclear power plant under state responsibility will be taken seriously. “Legally, he needs a majority and has to change a federal law, that’s how it is,” said Linnemann in the RTL / ntv “early start” on the Bavarian Prime Minister’s proposal. “But I think it’s right that politicians initially have an opinion in a situation like this, where we have a completely different situation than ten years ago.”
Germany is currently in an “emergency situation,” said the CDU deputy. Because “a third of the companies that are now investing abroad invest abroad solely for cost reasons”.
The last three remaining German nuclear power plants were shut down late Saturday evening, including Isar 2 in Bavaria. In the “Bild am Sonntag”, Söder called for the Atomic Energy Act to be changed again and for the federal states to be given responsibility so that Bavaria can continue to operate the reactor on its own.
