Germany’s Scholz to meet climate activists who went on hunger strike

Some three weeks after the Bundestag elections, climate activists say a date has been set for a meeting with Germany’s presumptive next chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

The meeting with climate activists Lea Bonasera and Henning Jeschke is scheduled for November 12, the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) said on Tuesday.

“It thus complies with our appointment request,” the group said in a tweet.

Bonasera and Jeschke were the last to break off a hunger strike started on August 30 near Berlin’s Reichstag building to demand more radical climate policies.

Bonasera and Jeschke also started to refuse liquids at the later stages of the strike before breaking it off on September 25 once Scholz, of the centre-left Social Democrats, promised to hold a public discussion with them.

Details on the framework of the meeting, such as location and number of participants have yet to be agreed.

The conversation about the climate emergency, which will last about one and a half hours, is to be broadcast live, a spokesperson for Bonasera and Jeschke told dpa.

Scholz currently serves as Germany’s outgoing finance minister. His party came out on top in September’s election and is now in talks with two smaller parties to form a left-leaning government. If successful, he will replace Angela Merkel as chancellor.

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