Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Stuttgart, the tottering feudal history of the CDU Alarm nuclear lose votes

The project Stuttgart 21, a new flagship for high-speed rail in the central park of Stuttgart's new blow to the power and the future of German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to environmental issues. The nuclear issue and the great work Stuttgart 21 at risk of losing the CDU government of Baden Wurttemberg, and historically very important region Democrat whose capital Stuttgart.

If the polls closed this evening's forecast comes true, the Christian Democrats would remain only as a solid bulwark of Bavaria. It almost seems like a twist of fate that country in the region of the Mercedes, the game of elections to the Landtag (parliament) we're playing right on the issues dear to environmentalists.

In fact, the region is home to four of the seventeen German nuclear reactors upon which half the energy consumed in the state. The concerns and fears caused by the disaster, the Japanese also came here and announced the suspension of nuclear power in recent days has been viewed by the Chancellor in key defensive and electoral.

The CDU pay dearly in terms of its traditional support for the consensus atom. If in 2001 the then head of Schroeder's Social Democratic government had set a deadline for closing nuclear power plants by 2020, in 2009 the Christian Democrats have postponed a period of ten years. A controversial choice that has aroused wide resentment became overwhelming after the tragic news coming from Japan.

But in the regional capital of the central theme of political debate is the expensive Stuttgart 21 project involves the construction of a new center for high-speed rail in the central park in Stuttgart. The goal is the conversion of the train station to the surface - 16-track terminal station - in an underground loop pole to 8 tracks.

It involved the construction of 16 tunnels with a total of 33 km at a total cost of one billion euro. Fifteen years later, the project has remained the same, but the costs have increased fivefold, and officers are no signs of stopping in the near future. Work dropped from above by central government without consulting the local population in front of the 'beginning of the destruction of the park, between August and September, he began to protest in the streets.

In the face of silence and split the SPD, the Greens were just riding the wave of protests failing to earn acclaim. Just think that the polls give them up to 25 percent on a regional basis, a percentage more than doubled compared to 2006. According to opinion polls, while remaining the largest party, the CDU will lose points and the decline of liberal allies, while on the opposite side, the Greens could become the second largest party bypassing even the social - democratic.

The agreement Spd Verdi for the new government of Baden Wurtemberg is almost done and uncertainty concerns only the leadership of the coalition. If the Greens will take more votes than the SPD (the figures are 24 percent - 25 percent each) in Stuttgart will take office on the first green president of a German Land.

And the high-speed rail project in Stuttgart, although the work has already begun, could be stopped. (Simon has worked Bauducco)

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