German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/221,
pp. 27945-27946.
Right honorable Frau President. Colleagues.
“The railroad will get it right” [„Die Bahn soll’s
richten”], that is the homely title of this debate. In an over-bidding
competition of self-praise and wish-what-you-will talk, the AfD will
nevertheless not participate.
Detlef Müller (SPD-Chemnitz): You have no plan!
We know that the Bahn is
good if it is about large transportation quantities or urban connections. The AfD
however energetically rejects all ideas of a planned economy transportation
transformation which will take mobility from very many people, because primarily
for them it makes driving a car unaffordable.
It is right to boldly haul the Bahn into the 21st Century with digitalization and a good
infrastructure. It will however not replace but can only supplement road
transportation. Here, you are right, Herr Minister Scheuer, when you presume
the AfD to be the last realists who recognize the significance of road transportation.
Where the Bahn makes a good offer,
the people will gladly transfer. A political compulsion hereto, the AfD rejects
with complete distinction.
The coalition dishes up to us a celebratory motion for
immediate approval. Thus you, with the majority in this house, want to greet
all that you in any case exactly do and to demand of the government all that it
in any case exactly plans. Not that all of this would be completely false, but
its reach is plainly much too short. For example, there lacks any perspective
of how the business structure of the German Bahn
shall be reformed. Here, the immediate approval is only consistent, since the
substance is simply lacking for a consultation in the committees.
In opposition to this fair weather motion, we of the AfD are
occupying ourselves literally with how just for once the Bahn can be made weather-proof. Customers will only trust the Bahn when it really runs reliably. Thus the
disaster of winter’s impact in February may not be repeated.
Naturally can the winter become so harsh that all trains no
more run. Yet it may not from the outset simply be that important stretches of
the Bahn will for days not be cleared,
with all consequences for transportation of persons and goods. Therefore the
AfD demands a very high priority for the availability of the railway
infrastructure and penalties if this is not met.
Where the coalition speaks of “ambitious climate protection goals”, the Greens in their motion throw in a shovel and demand with these same words an “ambitious implementation”.
Matthias Gastel (Greens): Ach! Unbelievable!
Steffi Lemke (Greens): Madness!
For the Deutschlandtakt
you demand the state economy, even for long-distance transportation. And to
your ideological control of transportation is added: Increase of the trucking
fee, price increases for diesel fuels, massive cuts in the roads infrastructure
and much more.
That also goes for travel if in any case this party takes part in the next Federal government. I say this quite clearly from the side of the AfD, since we are truly the only ones who have no coalition plans with the Greens for the time after the Bundestag election.
Steffi Lemke ( Greens): That would also not be tolerated by us!
The FDP motion which today is up for approval, in regards Bahn reform, construction and
infrastructure availability, goes in the right direction and also meets with
the approval of the AfD delegation.
The Bahn is no
cure-all. But with digitalization and a targeted construction of its strengths,
it is the right alternative for many. Then by free decision it will be gladly
used. The AfD aims at exactly that.
Steffi Lemke ( Greens): You may be
surprised. Absolutely no one wants a coalition with you.
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