Regardless of the plans for a gas price brake, demonstrations against the previous energy policy have again taken place in the north-east. But significantly fewer people came than in the weeks before.
Schwerin/Neubrandenburg/Wismar (dpa/mv) - In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there were several protest actions against energy and health policy on Monday evening - but with fewer participants than in the previous weeks. According to previous counts, around 6,000 demonstrators came together in more than 15 cities, police spokesman said. That was a good 2000 fewer participants than in the weeks before. Most participants were counted with 1400 women and men in Schwerin, which alone were 1000 participants less. In addition, there were several hundred people in Wismar, Güstrow, Ludwigslust, Neubrandenburg, Neustrelitz and Waren an der Müritz, among other places, where Mayor Norbert Möller (SPD) also spoke.
Möller, who had been invited by entrepreneurs, explained at the market that he would do everything together with the public utility company to get people through the winter safely.
On the other hand, speakers from the protest organizers in Waren and Neubrandenburg made assumptions about what could happen if the gas supply were to fail as early as February 2023. After that, according to information from a local energy supplier, there could also be a power failure and without electricity there could also be problems with the drinking water supply. The whole thing is "but not to be understood as scaremongering," said an entrepreneur who acted as an organizer in Neubrandenburg.
In Schwerin, speakers primarily called for an energy policy that people could afford and criticized what they considered to be one-sided media coverage of the Schwerin protests. Some demonstrations also called for a halt to arms sales to Ukraine and peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
