The German Greens approve to support the extension of operation of nuclear power plants

MADRID, 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Congress of the German Greens party held this Saturday in Bonn has approved as a provisional measure and after a bitter debate to support the extension for the operation of the Neckarwestheim 2 and Isar 2 nuclear power plants in southern Germany.

However, they have approved that not one more nuclear fuel rod be manufactured in a key debate given the weight that the coalition government led by the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz has as a social formation.

The Minister of Economy and leader of the Greens, Robert Habeck, has thus managed to stop a motion presented on Friday by the bases of the formation to veto the extension of the deadline for the closure of the plants in southern Germany and support its continuity as a measure of emergency until April 15.

"What if we are going to support nuclear energy? Of course not. There is no way that is going to happen. Not being in the federal government. Not with the Greens in the federal government and not with Steffi Lemke and not with me," he said. Habeck affirmed in reference to the Minister of the Environment.

Habeck has recognized that the approved measures could be painful for the Greens, "but we will never be wrong about what is the problem and what is the solution: fossil fuels and nuclear energy are the problem", he stressed.

The third German nuclear power plant still in operation, that of Emsland, near the Netherlands, will have to close at the end of this year as initially planned, as approved by the Greens.

The Free Democratic Party, Scholz's third coalition partner, instead advocates keeping Emsland running even beyond the spring of 2023.