Berlin: Hundreds of thousands of climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, strengthened in cities in Germany Friday ahead of the weekend election as Frontrunner Olaf Scholz called for “change of government” after 16 years of Angela Merkel above.
Speaking in a rally in front of the Reichstag parliament building in a Sunday poll, Thunberg said on Friday to supporters of young people in the future that they needed to hold German political leaders to take into account the last election day.
“It was clearer than before that there were no political parties that were quite close enough …
Even their proposed commitment was almost in line with what would be needed to fulfill the Paris agreement” in limiting climate change, he said.
“Yes, we have to choose, you have to choose, but remember that voting will not be enough.
We must continue to go to the streets.” The organizer said the demonstration had attracted 620,000 people to more than 470 cities in cities throughout the country.
Head Friday for the German Chapter of the Future said the country, one of the top emitors of greenhouse gases over the world, has the responsibility of the outsize to provide an example, with time running out to reverse destructive trends.
“That’s why we call this a one century election,” Luisa Neubauer told AFP.
The race has boiled into a two-way contest between Social Democrats (SPD) Scholz, Minister of Finance Centrist, and Armin Laschet from Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats.
Polling gave Scholz a small advantage of around 25 percent above Laschet around 22 percent, with candidates from the Ecological Greens, Annalena Baerbock, lagging behind in the middle of adolescence.
“We need a new start to Germany and we need changes in government and we want the government led by SPD,” Scholz, also the Chancellor’s representative under Merkel, told supporters in the city of Cologne.
The three leading parties say they aim to implement the climate protection agenda if selected, with vegetables that present the most ambitious package of steps.
Baerbock, who joined one of the days for a demonstration in the future in Cologne, told the newspaper Die Welt that he hoped the protest would give his party “tailwinds” towards the voting.
“The next government must be a climate government – which will only work with a strong green party.” More than 400 “climate strikes” took place in Germany on Friday.
Thousands of people gathered on the yard there from signs of morning bearings reading “climate now, homework later”, “this is our future” and just “choose”.
“The climate is an important problem and if this continues things will get worse and worse,” said 14-year-old Louise Herr to AFP.
German protests are part of a global climate strike in more than 1,000 communities worldwide, Friday for the future.
Their central demand is to limit the heating of the earth to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius as arranged in 2015 Paris Climate Accept.
Although Merkel’s vocal support for climate protection measures, Germany has repeatedly failed to meet the emission reduction target under the pact.
In the decision of the landmark in April, the German Constitutional Court found the government’s plan to curb “inadequate” CO2 emissions and put “unfair load” in future generations.
In September 2019, Friday for the future climate movement drawing a large crowd in cities around the world, including 1.4 million protesters in Germany, according to organizers.
About 60.4 million Germans were called to elections on Sundays and most voters quoted climate protection among their top priorities.
Apart from the environmental appointment of all parties, Friday for future activists have said the official Greens program failed from what was needed to maintain a temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Green wanted to end the use of coal energy in 2030 instead of being planned 2038 and ended the production of burning machine cars in the same year.
While the party is expected to be far from his ambition to win the Sunday election and put Baerbock in Chancellor, polls show that he has a good opportunity to join the ruling coalition as a junior partner under Scholz or Laschet.