German election - climate alarmism now challenged from left as well as right | Eastern North Carolina Now

The climate debate on the right in Germany's election campaign has now been joined by a similar climate debate among leftwing parties.  On the right, the traditional conservative CDU would rein in some but not all of the current climate agenda.  Their populist nationalist right competitors, the AfD, on the other hand calls for reopening the nuclear and coal power plants and phasing out expensive and unreliable wind and solar.

While the new populist left BSW led by former Left Party floor leader Sahra Wagenkrecht have always been climate sceptics, they have not emphasized it in their campaign until now.  They have zeroed in on the Green Party, also of the far left and are demanding an end to the expensive climate policies.  The BSW is a populist left party that follows traditional leftist dogma on economics but is stridently anti-immigration, anti-woke, and opposed to the climate agenda.

The Green Party has been taking a beatng in the EU election and state elections in Germany, and have been losing vote share in polling for the parliamentary election this month.  Now that the BSW is going after them hard on the climate policies that give Germany the most expensive electric rates in the world, they are likely to take a further hit.  Climate alarmism has become a pocketbook issue.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/07/german-left-populists-declare-war-on-globalist-green-agenda-in-countdown-to-federal-elections/