At the start of the year, Die Linke attested that the traffic light coalition had a social imbalance in its climate protection policy.
Berlin – In a strategy paper presented on Saturday, the two chairmen, Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, accuse the federal government of focusing primarily on incentives for companies when it comes to climate policy.
The “traffic light” wants private investment and rising prices for fossil fuels, the left criticizes in the appeal. Without compensation, however, this would be “at the expense of the vast majority of the population – people with small and medium-sized incomes”. The paper was presented at the party’s digital annual kick-off event.
“We have to get on the 1.5-degree path as soon as possible,” says the paper by the two party leaders. “The federal government must be measured by that.” The plans of the traffic light coalition are only “a half-hearted transformation”. The plans of the SPD, Greens and FDP are not suitable for achieving the 1.5 degree target. Many climate scientists also criticized this.
“With the return to the debt brake and tax breaks, the governing coalition is turning off the money tap itself,” the paper continues. It is right to use the scope for borrowing within the debt brake.
However, the possibility of extended borrowing for future investments must exist in the long term. “The traffic light has so far lacked the courage for this.” The left advocates “social guarantees” for climate protection and more rights for employees.
With the paper, the top left wants to get out of the political defensive that the party has been on since the defeat in the federal elections. She had only reached 4.9 percent, in the polls she is currently barely above it.
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