Greens leader Ricarda Lang has criticized her own traffic light coalition and blamed her for the AfD’s high poll numbers. “We also have to take a look at our own nose as a traffic light,” said Lang in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”.
“The constant arguments over the last few weeks, the conflicts being settled on the open stage instead of at the negotiating table and the hanging around the heating law were definitely not a highlight.” You have to talk more about solutions and less about arguing with each other.
AfD last at 18 percent
In the ZDF “Politbarometer” the AfD is 18 percent behind the CDU/CSU (28 percent) and the SPD (19 percent), but ahead of the Greens (16 percent), as the broadcaster announced on Friday. In the most recent RTL/ntv “trend barometer” by the Forsa Institute, the AfD is even the second strongest party behind the Union (29 percent) and ahead of the SPD (18 percent) and the Greens (14 percent). “Every democrat can only worry about these poll results for the AfD,” said Lang.
The social question must always come first, emphasized Lang. “Because we see that where there is uncertainty about social justice issues, the populists can advertise.” The Greens politician would find it absurd if, for example, the budget for regional economic development was cut. This is a “gift for the populists in the East,” said Lang.
The 29-year-old also noted that the Greens have had to make difficult decisions in the past. “LNG terminals have been built, nuclear power plants have been extended, weapons have been delivered to Ukraine, because it was clear to us and it is still clear today: politics is not made for the reality that you wished for, but for the reality that there,” said Lang. At the same time, she made it clear: “I see a party that is willing to make compromises, that wants to govern and takes responsibility.”
ZDF-“Politbarometer”
