Friday, July 2nd, 2021
“No competition with the Greens”
Climate list is formed as a federal party
The climate list allegedly does not want to initiate a competition for Green voters. Nevertheless, the activists around the Fridays for Future movement are now creating the structure for a powerful alternative. After being represented in all federal states, they are now also founding a federal party.
The Climate List party is now officially involved at the federal level. Representatives of the group announced the founding of the new federal party Climate List Germany in Berlin. The board had already been elected on June 19 in Leipzig. So far, activists on the climate list have only been active at local and state levels.
However, the climate list does not want to run for the federal election via state lists. As a result, she will not be eligible for election as a party in the Bundestag election on September 26th. Initially, she only wants to get involved through direct candidates. The climate list wants to draw up at least 70 of them across Germany. The party did not initially name an official number of members. A spokesman puts the number of those currently involved at “at least 1200”.
Supporters include scientists, representatives of environmental groups and activists from the Fridays for Future climate movement. The chairman duo is made up of the Baden-Württemberg student Fabian Aisenbrey and the physicist Doris Vollmer. The start-up program focuses on ecological change. The focus is on the fight against climate change, the end of the combustion engine from 2025 and social compensation through so-called climate money, as the Greens are calling for. Social demands such as an unconditional basic income or the socialization of living space are also part of the program.
“Strengthening the climate movement”
Officially, the party does not see itself as direct political competition with the Greens. Co-chairman Vollmer emphasized that the basic concern was to strengthen the climate movement. “We are very happy when Annalena Baerbock implements consistent climate protection,” she added to the question of whether the climate list could cost the Greens valuable votes.
According to its own statements, the party is now represented in all 16 federal states. Most recently, climateist candidates also ran in the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt. In all three federal states they clearly missed the five percent hurdle for entry into the state parliament, in Saxony-Anhalt the climate list came to around 0.1 percent of the votes.
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