Gift for birth in Bavaria
Greens want to give babies shares in wind turbines
May 20, 2023, 5:21 p.m
The energy transition in Bavaria is one of the core issues of the Greens in the election campaign before the state elections in Bavaria. In order to make wind power more attractive to the population, the opposition party of the CSU wants to put pressure on parents and newborns with an unusual deal.
The top candidate of the Bavarian Greens, Katharina Schulze, wants to give children in the Free State a share in the ownership of wind turbines when they are born. “The wind turbines in the state forest will then belong to Bavaria’s children,” explained Schulze at the state party conference in Erlangen. According to this, every baby in the Free State should get a 3,000-euro share of the wind turbines, and a “strong return” on their 18th birthday.
The energy transition in Bavaria is one of the core topics of the Greens in the election campaign before the state elections in just under five months. “The CSU is blocking new wind turbines and preventing cheap electricity,” said Schulze. “She allows Bavaria’s climate to heat up unchecked,” she criticized, adding: “Because Markus Söder and the CSU Energiewende simply can’t do it.” Söder falsely promises people that they can continue to install fossil fuel heating systems in their homes. “Don’t let Markus Söder sell you any fossil scrap,” said Schulze’s group leader, Ludwig Hartmann.
Together with Hartmann, 37-year-old Schulze is the top candidate in the state elections. The aim is to achieve an election result that would make it impossible to form a government without the Greens, said Hartmann. The Greens, who entered the state parliament as the largest opposition party in 2018, are currently a long way from their goal – the most recent survey sees them with a 16 percent share of the vote. So far, Prime Minister Markus Söder can hope for a comfortable majority to continue his desired coalition with the Free Voters.
The Bavarian Greens decide their campaign program for the state elections in Erlangen. On Friday, the delegates in Erlangen nominated their top candidates for the next European elections, Malte Gallée (Bayreuth) and Henrike Hahn (Munich). In addition to the leading duo of Schulze and Hartmann and the party chairmen Eva Lettenbauer and Thomas von Sarnowski, Minister of State Claudia Roth was also expected in Erlangen on Saturday, and Federal Chairwoman Ricarda Lang on Sunday.