Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has accused his Green coalition partner of "ideological blinkers" when it comes to the energy transition. "The Greens are not concerned with what is sensible, what is economically right. It's all about the party programme," he said at a debate between the top candidates for the state elections on 1 September, which was organized by the "Sächsische Zeitung", the "Freie Presse" and the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" in Dresden.
The energy transition as it is currently being pursued has failed and needs to be relaunched. "We will manage it, but we have to remove all ideological blinkers," said Kretschmer. We also need to talk about nuclear power and domestic gas.
Katja Meier, top candidate for the Greens and currently Minister of Justice, disagreed with Kretschmer. The energy transition had not failed. However, the CDU and SPD had only planned to phase out nuclear power and coal, but not to start using renewable energies. However, this is exactly what the Greens had done in the federal government and in Saxony.
