Monday, March 28, 2011

Merkel not reform their government despite the defeat in Baden-Württemberg

Berlin. .- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has no intention to reform its government after the electoral defeat of the parties in his coalition in regional elections held on Sunday in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. This was stated today his official spokesman, Steffeb Seibert, who said "the Chancellor has no plans so" in the usual appearance before reporters Monday.

"Moreover, such decisions are made within the parties, if taken," said Seibbert when commenting on the results of regional elections. Chancellor Merkel herself, minutes depsues, an assessment of the results: "This is a profound change in the history of Baden-Württemberg and the CDU," admitted the president, for whom the "obvious reason" for the defeat is that look at the consequences of nuclear disaster in Japan and its strong influence on the debate and nuclear energy in Germany.

He also acknowledged that because you have had scientific training so far between the advocates of nuclear energy, but "that changed" with the nuclear disaster in Japan and led to their decision to implement a moratorium on the law to extend the life of nuclear power plants in this country.

Despite the poor election results, Merkel stressed that it intends to take hasty action on the future of nuclear energy and wants to wait until June when the moratorium ends, awaiting the results of tests on the state of Germanic atomic plants. "Safety has absolute priority," said Chancellor, who said that given the expected tightening of security measures for nuclear power plants in Germany, will have to see if they are finally profitable economically.

Merkel finally announced in mid-April meeting with the heads of government of the 16 federal states to discuss the improvement and expansion of electricity distribution networks in Germany with the aim of facilitating the transport of renewable energy throughout the country .

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