"Please take that back" - The Berlin CDU is criticized after a controversial Twitter post, but does not seem to be able to understand it.
- The CDU Berlin sees criticism.
- The negative echo was triggered by a Twitter post on the commuter situation in the city.
- Renate Künast became particularly clear, but there was also criticism from her own party.
Berlin - How can I best draw attention to the situation of commuters in Berlin ? The Berlin CDU probably asked this question and ultimately found an apparently unfortunate solution - the result was violent headwinds. A tweet provoked a series of angry reactions. They also came from their own political camps.
The corresponding article states: “Berlin commuters: 320,000 times in and out every day. And not a bit of fun with traffic ”.
Berlin vortex about CDU tweet - Künast rumbles: "Which macho troop writes something like that?"
Mario Czaja , himself a member of the CDU parliamentary group in Berlin , was irritated by the tweet and wrote on Friday: “For me, this type of communication is no longer part of our Union's canon of values * . Please take that back. Mobility concepts should be able to be communicated convincingly without sexual innuendos. ”There were some critical comments with a similar tendency, including from Renate Künast . The green member of the Bundestag asked on Twitter: "Which macho force writes something like that?"
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CDU Berlin: Tweet causes trouble: "Not the niveua of a city party"
Berlin's Greens parliamentary group leader Antje Kapek , who discussed CDU country head Kai Wegner in the RBB “evening show” about traffic policy on Thursday , criticized: “It's thumping humor, but not the level of a big city party.” It was serious politics the CDU campaign miles away.
The text from Thursday's tweet has also been published on Facebook and Instagram - and is being defended by those responsible despite criticism: “We said that we would be cheeky, courageous and sometimes provocative about our content. We seem to be able to do that, ”said a spokesman for the CDU state association on Friday. "It is undisputed that commuter traffic in Berlin is an enormous problem."
On Twitter, politicians are always fooled. Recently, SPD leader Saskia Esken faced two headwinds. First she was angry with a tweet about her diet, then with a pointed statement about Antifa.
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