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02 Dec 2020, 13:40
Kerstine Appunn

Disgruntled Green Party members in Hesse consider joining new 'Climate list' party

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Members of the regional Green Party in central German state Hesse have said they might leave the party and join a new 鈥渃limate list鈥 due to the regional party leadership鈥檚 stance towards the building of a controversial new motorway (Autobahn) project A49 that cuts through the Dannenr枚der Forest north of Frankfurt, Wolfgang Oelrich reports in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Many in the party's rank and file are unhappy and disappointed with Green economy and transport minister Tarek Al-Wazir, who insists that his hands are tied regarding the decision whether the A49 motorway should be built, two regional Green politicians told the reporter. The stretch between 鈥渋dealism versus realpolitik could tear the party apart鈥, the author writes - especially since the advent of the new 鈥渃limate list鈥, a new party seeking to combine voter and activist groups, for example the Fridays for Future movement, as an alternative to the Green Party. After establishing state parties in the states Baden-W眉rttemberg and Rhineland Palatinate, the climate list took the stage in Hesse at the end of October and is planning to run in the state-wide local elections in March 2021.

Protests against the motorway project in a stretch of woodland that needs to be cleared for constructing the highway, and their dispersal by police, have exposed a deepening rift between climate action protesters and Hesse鈥檚 Green Party. The federal Green Party leadership has argued that the autobahn construction project should be stopped and called for a moratorium on new highway construction in the country altogether.

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