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Political Ash Wednesday: CSU booing scouring - Söder mocks Fridays for Future

2020-02-26T15:30:35.646Z


It can be pulled from the leather again: the political Ash Wednesday 2020 is here. He started booing for Andreas Scheuer.


It can be pulled from the leather again: the political Ash Wednesday 2020 is here. He started booing for Andreas Scheuer.

  • Also in 2020, political Ash Wednesday will pull on the leather.
  • Markus Söder, Saskia Esken and Robert Habeck are the heads of four major federal parties in Bavaria.
  • The view also goes to other federal states: In the CDU crisis, AKK appears in Demmin, Armin Laschet in the Sauerland and Friedrich Merz in Thuringia.

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4:09 p.m .: After the right-wing terror in Hanau , the parties largely shot into the right on Ash Wednesday. CSU leader Markus Söder also scored with sharp attacks against right-wing extremism and the AfD in Passsau. He warned of "brown poison".

But there was also outrage from the other parties. Green leader Robert Habeck called "a protective shield of decency" and SPD leader Saskia Esken a strong demarcation from the AfD. The domestic spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group Gottfried Curio, on the other hand, saw his party as a victim of defamation.

Ash Wednesday: "We ducked away long enough"

Greens front man Habeck called for more social support for those affected by extreme right-wing hatred. "We ducked away too long," he said in Landshut. Politicians should no longer push right-wing terrorism away as a niche problem. It is a "perfidious strategy" that people who need special shelters such as synagogues are now being attacked there. He urged the security authorities to take action.

The hall is raging when #Habeck says: “Let's keep the Nazis under lock and key.” # PAM2020 # Ash Wednesday

- vera cornette (@veracornette) February 26, 2020

Curio rejected any connection between the AfD and the Hanau attack and spoke of "disgusting slander".

Other parties clearly differentiated themselves from the AfD - also with regard to the election of the prime minister in Thuringia, where the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich had also been elected to the office of head of government with AfD votes. "Nazis remain Nazis," said SPD leader Sasika Esken in Vilshofen. "And anyone who is somewhat history-conscious shouldn't let them hold the stirrups," she warned.

The outgoing CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer warned her party against the excessive competition for her successor over-intensive self-employment. "We must not make the mistake of believing that we as a party are the navel of the world," she said at the Baden-Württemberg CDU in Fellbach.

Ash Wednesday: Parties court the protesting farmers

Free voters, CSU and Greens wooed the farmers, who protested with signs and tractors at several events in Lower Bavaria . The farmers are "the center of his party's political strategy," said Aiwanger in Deggendorf. The federal agricultural policy is a "headshot with an announcement," said the Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria.

Söder demanded more appreciation : "Bavaria is unimaginable without farmers," he said. "The whole world drinks and eats Bavarian." You have to be grateful to those who produced the food, whether conventional or organic.

Habeck emphasized that the Greens fully understand the displeasure of the farmers. "We have to pay the farmers so that they protect our environment and are not forced to further intensify their agriculture."

2:22 pm: CSU chief Markus Söder weathered unusually strongly in his speech on the political Ash Wednesday in Passau against the right. "Right-wing terrorism is a challenge in a dimension similar to that of the RAF at the time," said Söder.

"Right-wing terrorism is a new challenge in a dimension similar to that of the RAF back then." # CSU leader # Söder calls in his # PAM20 speech "more possibilities of the rule of law" in the fight against right-wing extremist scene. pic.twitter.com/9c9qrLmfMX

- BR24 (@ BR24) February 26, 2020

Ash Wednesday: CSU booing scouring - Söder mocks Fridays for Future

1:55 p.m .: Hubert Aiwanger assured the Bavarian farmers of his solidarity at the political Ash Wednesday of the Free Voters. They are the "center of the political strategy" of his party, he said to a good 1,000 visitors in Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria. So it could not be that Germany considers itself to be one of the richest countries in the world and thinks that its farmers cannot afford it.

Farmers had previously driven up to the Deggendorf town hall in protest with tractors. Aiwanger said the farmers had been harassed by "senseless decisions" like the fertilizer regulation. The federal agricultural policy is a "headshot with an announcement". Looking at the CDU's search for a new party chairman, he said: "The apparent dead are beginning to sneak up the stairs."

The FDP meanwhile mocked the recent election debacle in Landshut about the CSU. “Söder acts as a statesman. But he does not have the courage to throw his hat in the ring for the chancellor candidacy, ”teased country chief Daniel Föst . “That's why the CSU today has two more degrees than ours. Because nobody produces as much hot air as Markus Söder. "

1:29 pm: Not everyone laughed, on political Ash Wednesday . Some of the party leaders seized the opportunity for self-defense or political fire. While the event was used by AfD federal board members to defend themselves against the connection between language and subsequent violent acts. The act in Hanau was not a result of the political discussion in recent years, said Curio.

Green leader Robert Habeck also alluded to language and debate culture in his speech - but in a completely different way. Germany must once again demand “decency” in the discussion, said the Green leader. Society must be given the opportunity to think again, to ask new questions, to argue again. Discourse with decency and respect for other opinions is important.

Ash Wednesday: CSU booing scouring - Söder sees Habeck at "Tofu Tupper Party"

11:58: CSU boss Markus Söder also made a clear commitment to his Bavarian homeland at the political Ash Wednesday - and once again refused chancellor speculation. " My place is here - in Passau, in Bavaria and not in Berlin ", he clarified and received thunderous applause. Söder also emphasized: "I help where I can. We endangered this GroKo as a CSU - but we saved it in some places last year. ”

The CSU will continue to do so and continue to "see to it that is right" in Berlin . The goal is to develop Bavaria, to make it strong and at the same time to ensure that Germany is not moving in the wrong direction. In this context, Söder reaffirmed his call to fight the AfD . "We don't want a green chancellor," he then clarified and concluded his speech with the words "God save Bavaria". The audience acknowledged this with applause lasting several minutes and a standing ovation .

Political Ash Wednesday of the Greens: Habeck gives political fire speech

11:57: "How can you create a discourse that is characterized by decency ", asks the Greens boss Robert Habeck in Bavaria . It starts with "not confusing tradition with simplicity or simplicity, but understanding it with diversity". Freedom and diversity should be recognized as an opportunity.

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Robert Habeck at his Ash Wednesday speech.

© dpa / Tobias Hase

It must also be understood that different opinions are enriching - and at the same time, the Greens must adhere to being able to fill a mandate. "But let's not look at ourselves," Habeck introduces the end to his flaming campaign speech. Not even “on the political genger. Let us look at the problems of the citizens and address them - on March 15th in the local elections in Bavaria ”.

Political Ash Wednesday: The new SPD leader is having a hard time

11.50 a.m . : While Markus Söder is leathering heavily against the Greens in Passau, SPD leader Saskia Esken has a hard time getting going at her first Ash Wednesday speech in Vilshofen. Esken spearheaded the CDU - the party was “helpless” in its leadership crisis, she said. Otherwise, the chairwoman elected just a few weeks ago tries to persevere and use classic demands: Neoliberalism must be pushed back, the SPD must "dare more social democracy".

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Saskia Esken did not really get going at the Ash Wednesday rally of the SPD in Vilshofen.

© dpa / Daniel Karmann

Ash Wednesday: Habeck (Greens) makes no mention of Söder

11.48 a.m .: In his fire speech on the political Ash Wednesday in Landshut, Habeck addresses a "general social" problem. Anyone who says as a politician today "Wait a minute, I have to rethink that first" has already lost, explains Habeck. "But who says: I am like that, I am the coolest", he is cheered. "We have a system that is designed to permanently make sure of yourself." That is not possible at a time when you have to think or sometimes rethink things. “We have forgotten how to argue as a society. We need a new culture of debate, ”emphasizes Habeck again. For the Greens, this means concretely shaping politics in times when the other parties are disoriented. Because the fact that the SPD and CDU are self-employed is “a problem. That paralyzes the government and political discourse ”.

11.45 a.m .: In Landshut, Green Party chief Robert Habeck attests to a " total failure of the popular parties ". "We have almost got used to the longing for the SPD to be meaningless," says Habeck - and yet he gets a few laughs. Although he immediately continues serious: The chaos of the CDU is now added. And that is dangerous, says Habeck.

The CDU members should currently hand in their cell phones at meetings in Berlin, says Habeck. "Mistrust has sunk so deeply into this party," that neither other parties nor the party's citizens could trust it. "The Union ship has torn itself away from the port," Habeck says angrily. CDU and CSU were floating on the open sea . "The claim to leadership is only directed inwards," says Habeck on Ash Wednesday in Landshut. One does not care about the responsibility towards the citizens.

Political Ash Wednesday: Söder (CSU) goes tough with the AfD

11.42 a.m .: CSU boss Markus Söder also went to court hard during his Ash Wednesday appearance. Why should one legitimately call Höcke a Nazi ? "Because he's one," Söder answered himself. "His disciples" are on the advance - especially in Bavaria. "If you are against it, you will be silenced," Söder continued to criticize. The AfD is reforming nationalist-nationalist and now it must finally be clear in the east, too. We have to fight the AfD, demanded Söder.

11:27: In addition to humorous swipes at the other parties, CSU boss Markus Söder also dealt with the incidents in Hanau , making serious tones . Right-wing terrorism in Germany was a new challenge in a similar way to what the RAF was then, he warned. "We need more possibilities of the rule of law, more investigative pressure on this scene", is his demand. He further urged not only to target perpetrators but also sympathizers. "If we are not careful, the brown poison will seep through and contaminate the democratic groundwater bit by bit," he warned with clear words. At the same time, he also reminded people not to put every sports shooter or hunter under general suspicion.

Robert Habeck shoots against Soder's speech: 2020 no "stupid disparagement of people"

11.25 a.m .: Meanwhile Robert Habeck has also taken the stage in Landshut. "Thank you for inviting me here as an old Fischkopp again and again," says the Green Leader at the political Ash Wednesday . He still remembered how he had initial respect for Bavaria and the cultural Ash Wednesday event. "It is perhaps the most difficult Ash Wednesday situation we have ever had," Habeck starts seriously. Because this event is about satire and exaggeration of other parties and politicians. But what would not work at this time was the "stupid disparagement of people - and making yourself stupid than you are".

Habecks counterattack on Söder: "Let's hold Ash Wednesday speeches of confidence and not to mob political opponents." The green Badis celebrates him for it. # pam20 #Habeck #Soeder #CSU #Gruene # csuam20 pic.twitter.com/IQpnPsItGc

- Michael Stifter (@StifterMichael) February 26, 2020

" To argue properly does not mean to expose people, " explains Habeck, and thus hits the heart of the speech by the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Markus Söder (CSU). Habeck apparently thinks that there is not so much to laugh about on Ash Wednesday. The Green Party boss has Instead, they decided on a fire speech: "We need a protective shield of decency", Germany needs a realignment and debate about who you are, what German culture contains. "We must not say everything that can be said," Habeck calls thunderous applause in the hall. One should not tolerate all tonality. That should come to Hanau more clearly than before.

Ash Wednesday: Söder (CSU) puts verbal leadership against Fridays for Future movement

11:19: Söder also went into the Friday for Future movement at the political Ash Wednesday . "I think Fridays-for-Future has already inspired," said the CSU boss and added smugly: "You could have done it in the afternoon, but it was inspiring."

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CSU chief Markus Söder at the political Ash Wednesday in Passau.

© dpa / Peter Kneffel

11.10 a.m .: While the political parties in Bavaria started Ash Wednesday, Bavarian farmers are protesting . They gathered with signs and tractors in front of numerous event locations. Among other things in front of the event halls of the CSU, the Greens and the Free Voters . The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder is already on stage at the CSU, while Robert Habeck is still making a statement and is calling for more understanding towards the farmers. In return, he calls on farmers to be more tolerant of species and climate protection. "We have to stop personal discrediting," he said in Landshut, Lower Bavaria, before his appearance at the political Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday: Söder supported Bavarian farmers in his Ash Wednesday speech

Söder, however, used his Ash Wednesday speech to express his support to Bavarian farmers . "I want to make a clear commitment: Bavaria is unimaginable without farmers," said Söder. Then he continues with clear words. "The whole world drinks and eats Bavarian - sometimes we should be thankful for those who produce it, " he rumbles and demands "more respect for our Bavarian farmers". With a view to the environmental discussion and regulations such as the Fertilizer Ordinance, Söder also demanded that what changes should happen "with and not against the farmers".

10:58: At his Ash Wednesday appearance, Markus Söder made several verbal strikes against the Greens . Söder said about Chairman Robert Habeck's statement that he loves patriotism , " If you don't love your country, you can't run your country. " In addition, he rumbled that the Greens would "represent the 80's smell", but today's times demand new answers and not the " green old moth box ". Söder continued to scold: "Greens rumble in the Bavarian state parliament against flying - but prefer to go on vacation in the USA." But there would still be no fast cycling routes there. Söder commented on the assumption of many citizens that the Greens had higher moral standards than the popular parties with a devastating conclusion: The morals of the Greens were double standards . "We have to disclose, clarify and present them," he said.

Ash Wednesday: Söder proposes FDP chief Lindner as the new honorary chairman of the Greens

FDP leader Christian Lindner was also proposed by Söder as the new "Honorary Chairman of the Greens" . In his opinion, many wrong decisions by the FDP apparently led to the strengthening of the Greens. " FDP always makes the wrong decision when it is important, " he said, referring to Lindner's rejection of the Jamaica coalition in the past. Söder's tip to the free liberals: "Break off your political Ash Wednesday, look at phoenix and ntv" to learn from the other parties. Later Söder spoke again to the Greens and continued with his swings: "I like to hug trees - but that's the only thing I want to hug."

10.44 a.m .: Now CSU boss Markus Söder came on stage accompanied by applause. "The boss in the ring is the CSU - and it stays that way," said Söder, referring to the political Ash Wednesday. Then he handed out against the SPD . Their copycat event was nothing more than " a sad circle of chairs " and Saskia Esken was invited as a "real mood cannon at the SPD" to cheer up the mood there a bit. The Greens also got rid of their fat right from the start: they would throw a " political tofu tupper party " with their chairman Robert Habeck.

CSU is brewing Andreas Scheuer at political Ash Wednesday

10:23: When CSU politician Andreas Scheuer took the stage, even parts of his own party were booing . The Federal Minister of Transport has also come under fire in the CSU for the toll disaster . Therefore, besides applause on Wednesday morning, whistles and boos were heard before Scheuer started to speak. In this, he then urged extremely vigorously that the CDU and CSU should never do things together with a Left Party . He further emphasized that Germany needed "neither an alternative for the left nor for the right". Instead, the country needs the middle class and thus the Union. "I can no longer see the Mimimi Society," Scheuer scolded. "I want us to be proud of our country and to shape the future from the political center."

10:04 am: Accompanied by his wife Karin, CSU boss Markus Söder stepped in front of the cameras punctually at 10 am in the Dreiländerhalle in Passau . Among others, his deputy Manfred Weber and Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) were there .

Ash Wednesday: Merz and Laschet will speak later in the day

Update from February 26, 2020 at 9.14 a.m .: It will be particularly exciting this year on political Ash Wednesday . Just under 24 hours after ex-union faction leader Friedrich Merz and CDU vice-president Armin Laschet officially launched their struggles for the successor of CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , the leaders of all parties are now again giving out some swipes as expected. At 10 a.m., CSU chief Markus Söder will appear in Passau and Greens chair Robert Habeck in Landshut. SPD leader Saskia Esken also speaks in Vilshofen at 10 a.m.

In the late afternoon around 5 p.m., the outgoing CDU leader Kramp-Karrenbauer and NRW Prime Minister Laschet will give their speeches. The former Union parliamentary group leader Merz is due to speak at 6 p.m.

First report from February 25, 2020:

Passau / Vilshofen - For some it is more entertaining than the carnival season that ended a few hours earlier: On political Ash Wednesday, top politicians in Lower Bavaria traditionally give out violently.

Ash Wednesday speeches could be particularly violent this year. Because the recent events in the political sphere of Germany polarized strongly: The CDU is not only looking for a new party leader, but also for a directional decision. And the thoroughly unsuccessful election of the Thuringian prime minister offers a broad area of ​​attack for pithy announcements in a beer tent atmosphere.

Political Ash Wednesday: Söder, Esken and Habeck in Lower Bavaria

Markus Söder, Saskia Esken and Robert Habeck , the party leaders of the CSU, SPD and Greens, will take part in the Bavarian Ash Wednesday Events 2020 . You will probably deliver a real remote duel. While Habeck and Söder were already able to deliver Ash Wednesday speeches, Esken celebrates its premiere in Vilshofen. Compared to Martin Schulz 2017, the starting point is much more difficult for them - the SPD has been in a nationwide crisis for years, struggling with consistently poor poll values.

Ash Wednesday is also celebrated outside of Bavaria, for example in the Mecklenburg town of Demmin , where still CDU boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is expected. Or in the Sauerland or Apolda in Thuringia , where CDU Vice Armin Laschet and Friedrich Merz want to use two of the potential successors.

Political Ash Wednesday: "Philosophy lesson in eco-socialism"? CSU closely monitors Greens

Esken had already declared months ago that on political Ash Wednesday he wanted to convey the “necessary messages” in a humorous way. “We'll see if I can do that. I definitely enjoy having such formats, ”she said. Söder and Habeck definitely do not have such thoughts, since their parties are extremely stable compared to the Social Democrats. But the same applies to the Greens in the long-term high and the CSU: No one can afford to make a mistake in the remote speech duel.

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Greener with earthenware: Robert Habeck at the political Ash Wednesday 2018.

© dpa / Andreas Gebert

How big the respect for the Greens has long been at the CSU was shown in advance. Secretary General Markus Blume recently said that the CSU was "excited" what it would hear from Habeck's "Philosophy lesson in eco-socialism" at its event in Passau - the Greens meet in Landshut . The CSU used to squint at the SPD that day, but Söder had also repeatedly emphasized recently that he expected the duel green against black at the next federal election. Bavaria's prime minister, according to his own statements, already prepared (handwritten) well on the Monday of Monday:

What you do on Shrove Monday ... 20 pages of speech for Political Ash Wednesday - of course handwritten #csu #passau pic.twitter.com/BgmwGGFqmh

- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) February 24, 2020

Political Ash Wednesday: FDP, free voters, AfD and left also in action

The FDP could find it difficult to win something funny from the day. Secretary General Linda Teuteberg arrives for the Liberals. The FDP not only played a more than problematic role in Thuringia, but also suffered a bitter slump in Hamburg - and is drastically declining in the Bavarian surveys, as Merkur.de * reports.

Other Ash Wednesday locations are also Deggendorf, where free voter boss Hubert Aiwanger appears and the Danube in Passau - where left-wing icon Gregor Gysi speaks on the ship "MS Linz". The AfD meets in Osterhofen, Lower Bavaria. The keynote speaker is the contentious member of the Bundestag, Stephan Brandner . Aiwanger had recently warmed up and criticized the federal government in an interview with Munich's Merkur *.

Ash Wednesday: After Hanau - tact is required

Either way, the prominent beer tent speakers will also need tact. In the speeches, the gleaning of the citizenship election in Hamburg and the alleged extreme right and racist violence committed by Hanau in the past week, with eleven deaths, should also play a role. The upcoming municipal election in Bavaria on March 15 is likely to be a rather harmless topic. We keep you up to date on all important statements in this news ticker.

Incidentally, the political Ash Wednesday celebrates its 101st anniversary this year: in 1919, the Bavarian Farmers' Association first invited to a rally on the occasion of the cattle market in Vilshofen in Lower Bavaria - the political spectacle was born. After the Second World War, the political Ash Wednesday was revived by the Bavarian party, before the CSU and all other parties followed.

dpa / fn

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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