Retiring Green Party president is combative
Published: Saturday, Jan 27th 2024, 11:10
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The outgoing President of the Greens, Balthasar Glättli, was combative at the party's delegates' meeting. "Let's remain courageous. Let's stick together," he said on Saturday in Lucerne.
The Greens are needed now, more than ever, and all together, Glättli said at his last delegates' meeting as president, according to a press release. "With 2023, the hottest year is behind us," he said. And the next hottest year has probably begun. This makes it all the more important to push ahead with the restructuring of the energy system towards net zero by voting yes to the Electricity Act. With the solar initiative, the immense potential of solar energy should finally be fully exploited in future.
Glättli painted a bleak picture of the current global situation. Not only the climate and nature are in crisis, "wars and conflicts are shaping the everyday lives of countless people". Glättli is also concerned that far-right parties are gaining strength in many places.
He emphasized the responsibility of the Greens: "With the second-best result in our history, we have the second-largest Green parliamentary group." The party is the alternative to technical megalomania, with an environmental policy that respects nature and its limits. The outgoing president emphasized the successes of the last legislative period, including the drafting of the Climate Protection Act and the fight for a modern sexual criminal law.
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