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Idar-Oberstein (dpa / lrs) - The top candidate of the Rhineland-Palatinate Greens, Anne Spiegel, has committed her party to the election campaign for the state elections.

At the same time, she criticized Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) for not paying out Corona bridging aid before January.

"Let's fight together for a strong green result on March 14th," said Family Minister Spiegel on Saturday in Idar-Oberstein at the corona-related first digital state party convention of the Greens.

The party wants to stay on the government bench.

It is currently forming a traffic light coalition with the SPD and FDP in Rhineland-Palatinate.

"This is a mockery," criticized Spiegel with a view to statements from Altmaier's ministry, according to which state aid for companies and the self-employed to bridge the losses in the partial lockdown due to the corona crisis will not flow before January.

According to Spiegel, the Greens are pressing for the November aid to be paid out earlier.

Solo self-employed and artists, for example, urgently needed them.

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According to their top candidate, the Greens want to campaign for more climate and nature conservation, more renewable energies and a “mobility revolution” with more and better linked cycle paths, revitalized disused railway lines and a 365-euro ticket in local public transport.

It is also about more all-day schools and more healthy school meals.

The equality of women and men must be strengthened and "the completely wrong" Hartz IV aid replaced by a different social policy.

The party leadership steered the digital two-day party congress from Idar-Oberstein.

Around 200 delegates across the country were able to join in from their living rooms and work rooms.

On Sunday evening, the Greens wanted to adopt their election program for the state elections.

In a survey published on October 22nd by the opinion research institute Insa on behalf of the “Bild” newspaper, they had gained 8.7 percentage points compared to the 2016 state election.

That would have made them 14 percent if there had been an election on October 25, 2020.