Many in Germany now think the Greens are doing too much for the environment. Even their partners in government seem to find them too bossy
Six months later much of the German public is also upset with the Greens, albeit for the opposite reason. Instead of the Greens doing too little for the environment, many now think they do too much. No one calls them fascists, but even their partners in government, the bigger Social Democrats and smaller, liberal Free Democrats , seem to find them too bossy.
The grumpy German public does not seem to like either camp. Polls show diminishing enthusiasm for the Greens, with the percentage of Germans saying they would vote for them falling in the past year from the low 20s to the mid-teens. But they also show that the shift has benefited neither the centre-left, nor even the conservative Christian Democrats. Instead, since June support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland has doubled, to 19%.
The proposed home-heating law, which would ban new gas and oil boilers and subsidise installation of heat pumps, has become less a hammer than a lead weight for the government. Opinion polls suggest that barely a fifth of voters favour the ban. But the problem is not just resistance to a measure that householders fear would saddle them with fat bills and bureaucratic bother.
Such protests seem more effective at tainting the Greens by association than at raising climate awareness. They have also, indirectly, helped the: tellingly, two-thirds of its current supporters, according to a recent survey, say they would vote for the far-right group not because they share its views, but out of “disappointment with other parties”. This does not, however, mean theis now considered a normal party like any other.
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