BERLINER MORGENPOST
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Robert Habeck is apparently determined to remain firm: Patrick Graichen should not go. The outrage over Graichen’s role in the election of the new Dena boss has been growing for weeks, the pressure on the controversial state secretary and also the green economics minister is increasing. But Habeck wants to take a chance. There are understandable reasons for holding on – Graichen knows better than anyone else what needs to be done where and at what speed in order to keep the ambitious goal of climate neutrality by 2045 within the realms of possibility. But he is not irreplaceable either. And with each passing day that the discussion about the Secretary of State goes on, the potential for collateral damage grows.
Habeck has to weigh up what is heavier – losing Graichen and slowing down the turn to climate neutrality. Or to hold on to him and thus enable another week-long debate in which not only Graichen but also Habeck himself is further damaged – and in the end probably his actual project as well.
Because the resistance to the Greens’ plans to restructure the economy and the country was already great. The new building energy law, for example, which is intended to herald the phasing out of fossil fuel heating systems, is at the heart of Habeck’s climate policy agenda, but is spectacularly unpopular with many people and also with some coalition partners. If the vice chancellor wants to get it through the parliamentary process, he will need all the political capital he can mobilize. If he hasn’t already spent it to save his Secretary of State.
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