Writer offers to spend the night with German president if he votes against extending lifetime of the country's nuclear reactors
Writer offers to spend the night with German president if he votes against extending lifetime of the country's nuclear reactorsGerman writer Charlotte Roche offered in an interview to spend the night with President Christian Wulff if he votes against government plans to extend the lifetime of Germany's nuclear reactors.
"I am offering to sleep with him if he does not sign," said the 32-year-old anti-nuclear activist. "My husband agrees. Now it is up to the First Lady to give her consent," she said. "I am tattooed."
Roche, British-born author of the sexually explicit 2008 bestseller Wetlands, took part in major demonstrations last week against the transport of radioactive waste that underlined unease in Germany over nuclear power.
Wulff has to decide this year if a law prolonging the lifetime of the country's 17 nuclear reactors by up to 14 years should be enacted without the consent of the Bundesrat, the upper chamber of parliament that represents the regions.
The hotly disputed plans were approved by cabinet in September and will postpone by more than a decade to around 2035 the date when Europe's biggest economy abandons nuclear power.
Roche's bookRoche is the author of Germany's most shocking booku00a0-- Feuchtgebiete, or Wetlands in English. Women fainted at public readings. However, everyone read itu00a0-- 1.5 mn copies of Wetlands sold in Germany.
