Balthasar Glatley talks about the losses of the Green Party in the election scale
“You don’t do anything for the climate if you stick to the streets.”
It’s the biggest loser on the election metric: If elected now, Balthazar Glatley’s Green party would receive only 11.7 percent – 1.5 percent less than it did in the previous election. Is the green wave over? No, says Glatley in an interview with Blake.
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According to the election scale, the Green Party loses the most.
Blake: Mr. Glatley, the Greens were the biggest winners in 2019. According to the electoral scale Lose harder now. why him?
Balthasar Glatley: Wait a minute, according to the election metric, we’re still going to have the second best result in our history, and with nearly twelve percent we’re still in the big league. As a reminder, a month before the 2019 election, it was expected to be 2.5 percent lower than what we eventually achieved. I stick to the really important “polls”: elections in the cantons. We’re still making gains there.
You did not answer the question: Why are the Greens losing now?
The survey is definitely a wake-up call to us. We must make it clear that the reason for the current energy crisis is that we haven’t listened enough. Today we waste 40 percent of our electricity – instead of saving it with current technology. An ambitious climate and energy policy means more independence from other countries, from Russian gas and Saudi oil, and thus lower electricity prices. We need to make that more clear.
According to the election scale, 42 percent of your voters think the Green Party is on the left. do you have problem?
What or what! If it is to the left to take the urgency of the climate crisis seriously, it is likely that politics will not be left enough. According to the poll, we the Green Party is the party that is often elected out of conviction rather than because the people lack an alternative. But there are certainly people who vote for us because of our stance on the climate crisis and who are at best very left-wing on other issues. That’s why we’re going to fill in: you’ll only be green if you vote green!
The climate debate is currently dominated by sticky activists from Renovate Switzerland. Do they hurt anxiety—and thus greens, too?
It’s the other way around: many people believe that the climate and biodiversity crises are central to all of us. It can help us. After all, you don’t do anything for the climate by sticking to the streets, you do it by voting.
Many Green Party voters seem to be returning to the Socialist Party. You can’t recover what you promised.
This is our biggest challenge. But I prefer if we lose the electorate to the Socialist Party than the non-voter. Our goal should be for the green left camp to grow in general. Therefore, with the SP, we strive to find existing links in all the cantons. I would be glad if GLP participates as well.
Should the election result also look like the election metric: dispense with With 11.7 per cent for a seat in the Federal Council?
of course no! A party like the FDP can’t have two seats in the Federal Council at 16 percent and we don’t have any with 12.
But it’s probably the power cartel that I denounced recently From this result remains.
One thing is clear: the distribution of seats in the Federal Council is totally unfair. We want to increase more on October 22, 2023 – and then we will settle the accounts. We want to take responsibility in the Bundesrat. Our goal is to become the third most powerful force in Parliament.
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