Dröge calls Merz “the biggest possible accident” in the Chancellery

The co-chair of the Green parliamentary group, Katharina Dröge, described Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the "biggest accident" that could have happened to the CDU in the Chancellery.

After the AfD's strong performance in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU and SPD in the federal government failed to stop and ask themselves what they could do better, criticized Dröge at a state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian Greens in Essen.

The black-green government in North Rhine-Westphalia is an alternative to the federal government and also shows in its energy policy that it takes people's concerns seriously. “This is the answer from North Rhine-Westphalia to the federal level: You show that you can expand renewable energies and not slow them down, as Katharina Reiche is doing,” said Dröge about NRW Economics Minister Mona Neubaur in comparison to the Federal Economics Minister. Neubaur is running at the state party conference as the Green Party's top candidate for the North Rhine-Westphalia state election in April 2027.

“Here in North Rhine-Westphalia we show that we take young people seriously when they take to the streets,” said Dröge to the applause of her state association. Merz, on the other hand, skipped the international climate conference. "Young people rightly feel like they've been ripped off by you, Mr. Merz. This is a policy that doesn't take young people seriously."