Lang in the summer interview: Green promise ascent instead of relegation fears

Lang in the summer interview: Green promise ascent instead of relegation fears

Germany needs an “investment agenda”-Greens boss commented on the AfD survey high

Germany needs an “investment agenda”-and the traffic light will put a good package here, promises Greens boss Lang in the ARD interview. In detail, she also commented on the AfD survey and the question of what this has to do with the Greens.

In surveys, the AfD, which is currently right, is currently around 20 percent, but the Greens, on the other hand, only 13. When it comes to the question of how this could happen, the Green Co-Chairman Ricarda Lang is quite self-critical. "You clearly have to look at the traffic lights-and thus on us," said Lang in the ARD summer interview.

The coalition got a lot last year, but it currently meets many citizens, "they say to me, 'we want you to just tear yourself together,' said. This expectation must be an order - also to the Greens. One should not go into a niche, but have to make politics out of the middle. You also expect her own party to put the country in the first place - "especially if you have to get out of your own comfort zone".

as an example of a point where the Greens left their comfort zone, Lang called the consent to LNG terminals to land liquid gas after the summer interview in the ARD social media format.

via Instagram, the Greens boss was also asked whether the current gasoline price is high enough. Your answer: "I think he's too high for many people". And when asked that the Greens had started the election campaign with the demand for a significant increase in the fuel price, she said: "Positions change too."

once again spoke out to focus more on economic and social issues-and she admitted that this was not always successful in her party. Where there is economic uncertainty, there is a breeding ground for fear from which the AfD benefits, according to the Greens boss. "We need promise of advancement instead of this relegation."

Germany needs an “investment agenda”, Lang continues. And here the coalition partner FDP also proposed things that are "very useful". The traffic light will succeed in lacing a package together that help the economy and thus secure the foundation of prosperity. FDP boss Christian Lindner had proposed tax relief, for example, for investments in energy and resource efficiency.

In the opinion of the Greens politician, three points would have to be implemented in particular: Measures such as an industrial flow price must prevent companies from migrating to other countries. In addition, investments in the public infrastructure such as hospitals or the train are necessary. The third point is "that the people who work out the prosperity (...) then also benefit from it".

In connection with the AfD conveyor high, Lang also criticized parts of the Union and the Free Voters: The AfD gains where a right-wing cultural struggle is inspired by bourgeois parties, such as in Erding, according to the Greens politician. "Anyone who sings the song of the populists in the end strengthens the populists."

to the Union Appelled Lang to clarify their course in relation to the AfD. A stable, conservative party is important for stable democracy. With the Union, however, one does not know whether you are dealing with a party with conservative values or "the mistake and populists talk to the mouth". The fact that the Union is anything but stable could perhaps be good as the chair of a competing party, so long. But as a democrat, she has to say: "This is a tragedy".

asked about a case from her own constituency, in which local politicians voted the Greens for an application from the AfD, which dealt with grants for a theater, Lang said that the Greens had a clear line that excluded cooperation with the AfD - also at the local level. If in doubt, she is also ready to enforce this line. She did not give any further details.

The AfD describes Lang as "the most dangerous party in Germany"-a choice of words that AfD boss Tino Chrupalla had previously used in reference to the Greens. The AfD wants to exit the EU and thus an "economic fiasco for Germany", says Lang. In addition, she wanted to get out of NATO, which would "deliver Putin" with which Germany would "deliver". And the AfD wanted the abolition of trade tax, which, as a result, would result in "no outdoor pools, no women's shelters, no daycare centers", according to Lang.

AfD politicians did not make politics for little people, but a policy “against the majority of the people in the country, against whose concerns because they benefit from these concerns. In the core, the AfD is an anti-social party to destabilize this country.

The interview was recorded on Sunday afternoon. You will find it as a full length as a video on this page.