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Vaccination refusal Aiwanger provokes in an interview with Söder and CSU: What is his strategy?

2021-07-29T12:48:17.466Z


In an interview, Hubert Aiwanger shoots against CSU coalition partner Markus Söder and the corona policy in Bavaria. The words "stupid", "infamous" and "dishonest" are used.


In an interview, Hubert Aiwanger shoots against CSU coalition partner Markus Söder and the corona policy in Bavaria.

The words "stupid", "infamous" and "dishonest" are used.

Munich - "Thank you", Hubert Aiwanger cheerfully calls into the phone after 17 minutes. His interview with one of the republic's major radio stations ends with nice words, harmoniously. The friendliness is deceptive: The conversation between the Vice-Prime Minister and the “Deutschlandfunk” left serious irritations in politics. The free voter criticizes the vaccination policy, for which his CSU coalition partner Markus Söder stands, harder than ever. The words “stupid”, “infamous”, “dishonest” are used.

Aiwanger's Wednesday morning interview continues the series of conversations about his vaccination status.

The FW boss and economics minister is the only cabinet member who cannot be vaccinated.

Söder made sure that word got around among journalists (now nationwide).

The private matter became a political issue.

Aiwanger, initially annoyed, now uses it for profiling.


Vaccination dispute of the Bavarian coalition: Aiwanger scolds "you stay away from it"

In the DLF interview, the 50-year-old said that openly.

In the long term, he estimates the quota of those who do not want to be vaccinated to be 20 percent.

If he is now vaccinated, "they would suddenly turn away from the middle and say, now the last one has fallen over".

They then evaded "to the political fringes".


The FW boss, currently the top candidate in the federal election campaign against the five percent hurdle, wants to tap this potential.

To do this, he openly breaks the vaccination policy for which his state government stands.

Nobody should "start hunting those who are not vaccinated," he says.

Aiwanger argues with "massive side effects of the vaccination, so the spit stays away".

He sees the greater risk of spreading in untested vaccinated people than in tested unvaccinated people.

Vaccination dispute in Bavaria: Aiwanger scoffs at "standard injection for everyone" - is it all an election strategy?

Scientifically, this is questionable, to say the least.

Aiwanger concludes, however, that it is “dishonest policy” to vaccinate everyone quickly.

He calls it "stupid" to burden the unvaccinated with the test costs (as Söder wants it to be in the long run).

And scoffs at “the standard syringe for everyone, then the world will be saved”.


If you ask around in Aiwanger's party, you will hear murmurs and frowns.

Aiwanger agreed to every single measure in the cabinet.

However, there was no open contradiction shortly before the election.

It's also about money: for every single vote that Aiwanger gets in the federal election campaign, whether over or under five percent, high federal funds flow.


Dispute over corona policy in Bavaria: Söder wants to avoid escalation - end of the coalition in sight?

The anger is greater at the CSU.

Leading minds meekly ask whether Aiwanger can still be kept in the cabinet.

However, expulsion would not be so easy.

Prime Minister Söder would need the approval of the state parliament - and it would probably be the end of the coalition.

Then only black and green would remain for Bavaria.

In corona politics, both parties are very close, but only there.

At the same time, Söder gets along well with the rest of the FW parliamentary group.

Söder currently does not want an escalation.

The situation of his CSU is also shaky.

The louder the noise, the more vaccine skeptics he drives into the arms of his middle-class partner.

In a new Sat.1 survey (Institut GMS), 40 percent say that the non-vaccination is Aiwanger's private matter and that he does not have to justify himself.

Dispute over corona policy in Bavaria: Free voters take CSU votes

At the same time, the Free Voters are picking up strong approval from the CSU.

For the federal election, the CSU would only have a devastating 35 percent, the FW 7. With the 12 percent for the FDP, there is a fragmentation in the bourgeois-liberal camp.

Greens (20), SPD (9,), AfD (9) and Linke (4) complete the picture.

Söders CSU (39) is also not well on the question of the state election intentions.

Here Aiwanger comes to 8.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Christophe Gateau

Source: merkur

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