BRUSSELS (Aftenposten): A far-right party is growing, at the same time as the Greens are plummeting. And this is not just happening in Germany.
Climate activists who stick to the asphalt are partly to blame for German voters’ loss of confidence in the Greens.
The slogan “The greens have become too brown» published last winter in Berlin. The tags were environmental activists. They felt that the Greens, one of the three ruling parties, were not doing their job.
The party had just agreed to turn on coal-fired power plants to replace Russian gas. And the closure of the country’s nuclear power plant has been postponed.
The most stubborn critics felt that the Greens had taken on a color not only associated with fossil fuels, but also fascismfascismNationalist and authoritarian political movement and ideology born in Italy in 1919 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini..
Today, voters are unhappy again. But for the exact opposite reason. The party is sinking like a stone in recent polls. This caused the alarm to go off. Because voters are flocking to a climate denialist party.
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