As of: January 22, 2024, 12:42 p.m
By: Victoria Krumbeck
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A demo against the right will take place in Munich on Sunday.
The CSU feels attacked.
According to an organizer, the party is not welcome.
Munich - Since a meeting between right-wing extremists and politicians from the AfD and CDU was reported, protests have been growing in many cities.
A plan to deport millions of people with a migrant background is said to have been discussed at the meeting.
Many rallies and demonstrations are planned across Germany this weekend.
The police are expecting more than 25,000 people to attend the demonstration against right-wing extremism in Munich planned for Sunday (January 21).
Beforehand, there was an exchange of blows between one of the organizers and the CSU.
CSU MP Post shoots against right-wing demonstration in Munich
Demonstrations are taking place in dozens of Bavarian cities under the motto “Together against the right – for democracy and diversity”.
Bayerischer
Rundfunk
(BR)
reported that the parliamentary group leader of the Greens, Katharina Schulze, and the SPD parliamentary group leader Florian von Brunn will take part in the Munich demo.
Klaus Holetschek, CSU parliamentary group leader, could not say which parliamentary group members would take part in the demo.
However, he emphasized that the democratic parties must “show their colors clearly”.
The CSU politician Florian Post (r.) is upset about the “demo against the right” at X.
© Photomontage Matthias Balk/dpa
And MPs from the Free Voters (FW) would “of course take part in Munich,” as FW parliamentary group leader Florian Streibl told
BR
upon request.
The chairman of the FW, Hubert Aiwanger, who, according to the BR
, is taking part in a demonstration against the traffic light coalition in Ellwangen at the weekend is
not there .
Lisa Poettinger, who describes herself as the organizer of the Munich demo, wrote on
But what do CSU politicians want locally?
As the chair of the meeting, I can say that I have no desire for rights of any kind!” This statement was subsequently criticized, as Poettinger himself noted in another posting.
Demo in Munich: Post is upset about the event: “It’s a simple outrage!”
Florian Post, a former SPD member of the Bundestag from Munich who switched to the CSU in 2022, does not want to take part in the protests.
He lets off a lot of steam because of the organizer's posting.
“I will NOT take part in the 'demo against the right' and of course the Munich CSU chairman, State Minister Georg Eisenreich, is right,” wrote Post on January 20th on
Süddeutsche Zeitung
on Saturday said that he did not see Fridays for Future as a suitable organizer of the demo because the climate group had not differentiated itself enough from Greta Thunberg.
“I'll go one step further: the framing 'demo against the RIGHT' is simply an outrage!
You have to give it to you ideologues: you always mean what you say.
You are against everything that is not left-wing in your eyes!
And in doing so, you are doing a disservice to the fight against enemies of democracy (left-wing and right-wing extremists)!” the post continued.
Excitement about the demo: “Am I a right-wing extremist because I’m not left-wing?”
“Why isn’t it called: “Demo against right-wing EXTREMISM” or even better “Against all extremists”?
Any Democrat can sign this!
Yes, I am explicitly not left-wing!
I'm conservative!
And is that already banned in this country?
In doing so, you are also demonstrating against people like me.
Or am I a right-wing extremist because I'm not left-wing?" he added.
The nationwide protests were spurred, among other things, by the revelations by the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists on November 25, 2023, in which AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union are said to have taken part.
Around 15,000 people also came together in Nuremberg on Saturday.
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