R.The crowd had been crammed into a concert hall in central Berlin to hear the election stadiums at the time of the crisis from Robert Habik and Annalena Baerbock, prominent green ministers responsible for Germany and diplomatic economy. But to surprise some supporters, it took half an hour for anyone at the party that roles the environment to mention the climate.
The German Greens are fighting to adhere to power after four years in a coalition government, where they were placed on other parties, during which they slipped from their primary work in the political agenda. Although the party is still far from considering it Volksbarte – A major party that extends their demographic groups and issues – Al -Khader sought to enhance their prevailing attractiveness by talking about enhancing security and dropping rents and bills.
“Electricity has become green,” a member of the animation of the crowd said, referring to a boom in wind and solar energy that raised the stake of renewable energy sources to 60 % last year. “Now we are making it cheap.”
The possibilities of green increase when the Germans go to the polls next Sunday through some small measures. The ruling parties of all lines spent a catastrophic year in the ballot box, as they lost votes in almost every democracy that held the elections, and the green parties that reached the coalition governments in Ireland, Austria and Belgium. Severe losses in Germany and France led a setback in the continent in the European parliamentary elections in June.
But in Germany, the sixth largest historical pollutant for planet heating gases, the vegetables also blaming the economic problems in the country-and have become a target of ridicule of other politicians. The former coalition partners in the market, the right -wing opposition in the center and the extreme right -wing extremist made them responsible for “manufacturing” in Germany. The clean heating law, presented by Habeck in 2023, has proven that it is especially popular with the public.
“What happened in recent years is that the extreme right has set the climate as a goal-partly and frankly, because the climate policy was very successful,” said Louisa Newpaore, the most famous activist in Germany from Friday. . “There was no climate revolution in Germany, but things are going, and it has turned it into a threat to any party other than the Greens.”
The far -right alternative to the extreme orthodontic, Four Deutschend, who is taking place 20 % before the elections, led the charge that Germany fell under the moral grip of the “environmental assumption”, as the long arm of the state was clarified how people heat their homes, operate their cars and feed their families. Although she targeted her attacks on vegetables, she accused other parties of surrendering to her ideology.
The Newbauer said that the election campaign, Lakhdar, appears to be playing with the rules set by others. “The climate discourse has turned into something from the witch-where the extreme right screams anxiously about the windmills and many others run after them.”
Greens’s strategic shift on the campaign trail and online. The climate and energy were mentioned in a quarter of the twenty electoral jobs that the party spent the largest number of money on promoting social media, according to an analysis of political advertisements on the definition platforms such as Facebook and Instagram since the beginning of the year. In the Berlin Rally on Sunday, the first question he posed to Habik expressed his regret for a little climate protection in the election campaigns of any party.
“Climate protection has long stopped being an issue of consensus in this society – and it is no longer in the political arena in which we work,” Habik said. It varied with the debate about reaching climate neutrality in the recent elections, which “were just the steps of implementation and speed. All of this could no longer be considered a minor.”
Observers suggest that the vegetables can depend on the climate who have the climate, whether they give priority as an issue or not. Despite the bad press, the party is voting by 14 % – a little less than the share of voting in the last elections four years ago. A standard wave of new applications was also recorded at the end of January, where 5,000 people joined in five days, after conservative candidate Friedrich Mirz broke the long taboo in German policy by relying on remote right -wing voices.
This development, which sparked mass protests, helped put the vegetables in putting themselves as defenders of democracy – and worked for the slogan of the strange mysterious campaign in the party, “one person, one word.” Habeck described the logo, a comprehensive play for sex on a German phrase that means honesty and reliability, as inspired by quiet kitchen table conversations that allow dialogue.
“It is a bit shame that it is very difficult to understand, but he made it clear well,” said Eva Koler, a retired green electrician who attends the gathering.
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But the green voter base has also turned since the last elections, as the young demographic that prompted their success in the last elections was swarmed into the right. Between the European elections in 2019 and 2024, the share of the youngest voter fell by two -thirds of the Greens, and three times on AFD for social media.
“While the Greens were generally lost, their losses were especially clear among young voters,” said Cornellius Airert, a political scientist at Whiten University/Hurdic-with the share of the green votes between the voters for the first time in Germany from a third of 2019. One of the eighth in 2024. “As for the parties you may do with this? The Greens may focus on restoring young voters or accepting that their base is now old.”
In September, the Board of Directors of the Green Youth Organization resigned, citing the party’s readiness in an alliance government to support the most striking asylum and austerity rules, and increase military spending. She was also criticized for her support for Israel. The party gathered in Berlin on Saturday twice-once by the right-wing demonstrators and once by the protesters supporting the Palestinians.
“The difference in other middle parties is shrinking more and more.” “The vegetables have become a party like anyone else. But what is the difference that it causes?”
Newpaore said that the vegetables have grown more bustle about the climate crisis in the past few weeks of the election campaign, indicating that they were recovering their strategy again.
She said: “The extreme right wants us to play according to their rules.” “Although we know who knows the rules well enough to win.”