Despite the comparatively weak performance of the CSU in the local elections in Bavaria, the chairman of the CSU group in the Bundestag, Alexander Hoffmann, insists that his party’s anti‑Green stance is justified. He told the “Tagesspiegel” that during the mayoral election in Munich “it was not a Green who was chosen, but rather that Dieter Reiter was unseated”. He added that in Baden‑Württemberg the winner was not a Green at all, but Cem Özdemir, and that Özdemir “did everything in his campaign to give the impression that he has nothing to do with the Greens”.
Hoffmann criticised the Greens’ work in opposition in the Bundestag, saying that “the Greens in the federal parliament are increasingly becoming a populist party”. He argued that the coalition under Robert Habeck had already shown how dangerous Green ideology can be for democracy and the German economy. Regarding the heating law, Hoffmann claimed that the Greens were “ready to accept massive social upheavals” while he defended the new core points set by the Union and the SPD for the so‑called heating law. He noted that the current trend toward heat pumps should not be discouraged, and he said that “the black‑red coalition will leave the people free to choose in their heating cellar”.
