CDU leader Friedrich Merz has accused the FDP of contradictory behavior in the dispute over the heat transition. Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) “should have made use of the opportunity that the federal government’s rules of procedure give him, namely to veto all spending decisions,” said Merz in an interview of the week of Deutschlandfunk, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday should. Instead, he only made a protocol statement.
After a long discussion, the cabinet passed a draft law on Wednesday, according to which oil and gas heating systems may only be installed in exceptional cases from next year. New heating systems should then “if possible” be operated with at least 65 percent renewable energy.
Lindner only approved the decision with reservations and made a statement on the minutes. In the parliamentary procedure there will be “further necessary changes”, it said. In addition, the Minister of Finance expressed doubts as to whether the requirements in the law were “practicable and financeable”.
Merz now said that the consequences of this decision in the cabinet for the federal budget were incalculable. It is about billions that must now be made available to private households “to finance this decision with the crowbar”. (AFP)
