According to his statements on the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Palmer divides the Greens. After the corona shit storm against the Tübingen OB, there is now unexpected support for the controversial politician.
- Coronavirus pandemic * in Germany : Boris Palmer attracts a lot of shitstorm and indignation with polarizing statements about corona deaths .
- The Green Party therefore asked the Tübingen OB to withdraw from the party.
- But now the controversial politician is receiving open support from his own party.
Munich / Tübingen - In the picturesque student city of Tübingen (90,000 inhabitants) there is an anecdote among students that they like to tell each other while strolling along the Neckar.
Boris Palmer , the Green Mayor of the university town and passionate cyclist, is happy to tell the police where and at what times students are traveling with bicycles that are not suitable for traffic. It is an alley, or is there more to it?
Boris Palmer: Greens politicians polarized in the Corona crisis in Germany
At least the 47-year-old Swabian polarized among the aspiring academics in his homeland as well as long ago in his own party - nationwide.
His father Helmut Palmer had caused a sensation in Baden-Württemberg when the fruit grower from Waiblingen near Stuttgart once competed in around 250 mayoral elections in the state - and became known as the "Remstal rebel".
Enthusiastic cyclist: Tübingen's Greens mayor Boris Palmer.
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"A rebellious free spirit" is also Palmer junior, my 30 Green politicians, according to polarizing statements by the Tübingen OB, now in the Corona crisis in Germany - and demonstratively stand behind the man with a public appeal, who recently heated the minds so much .
"Boris Palmer belongs to the bedrock of the Baden-Württemberg Greens"
" Boris Palmer is one of the veterans of the Baden-Württemberg Greens , he is a staunch ecologist and sometimes a rebellious free spirit," according to faz.net in the appeal.
He was "not unteachable" and gave "serious reasons" for his position. The Greens had since its founding "a place of passionate debates, open confrontations," the "free speech and respect for minority opinions" belonged to this, according faz.net further explained.
Palmer had recently said in an interview with Sat.1 about corona deaths who had contracted the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 *: I'll tell you very brutally: in Germany we may save people who are in one half a year would be dead anyway - because of their age and previous illnesses. "
Corona crisis in Germany: Shitstorm on Boris Palmer was huge
The shitstorm was huge, the outrage tremendous - not only in political Germany. The state executive of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg had asked Palmer to leave the party. The FDP promptly received an offer.
But: According to the FAZ , 30 well-known Greens politicians have now asked federal chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck and the Baden-Württemberg state board to "seek dialogue and give up the style of the measure".
According to Corona statements: support for Boris Palmer with the Greens
The signatories therefore include the former Vice President of the German Bundestag, Antje Vollmer, and Martin Hahn, Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg.
In the midst of the Corona crisis , the Palmer personnel are now threatening to be a test for the whole party. A power struggle is in the offing.
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* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network.
