"The party" makes headlines because of provocative election posters ("Nazis kill.").
The direct candidate in the constituency of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen / Miesbach, Florian Merkl, speaks of "satire".
Wolfratshausen / Bad Tölz / Miesbach - "Killing Nazis": The election posters with which "The Party" is currently promoting itself in constituency 223 (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen / Miesbach) have, as reported, triggered a controversial discussion.
Now the direct candidate of the satire party, Florian Merkl, comments on this.
The Waakirchner is in his own words "in a dilemma".
If I have to explain satire, it loses its effect, satire develops its effect at the height of what is ostensibly stated and what, after reflection, could actually be meant.
Florian Merkl, direct candidate for “The Party” in constituency 223
The election poster, which, as reported, according to the Deggendorf public prosecutor's office, is not legally objectionable, “is satire”, Merkl emphasized to our newspaper. But: "If I have to explain satire, it loses its effect, satire develops its effect at the height of what is ostensibly stated and what, after reflection, could actually be meant." To understand the message, the " The party "sending out" is therefore an intellectual achievement. Merkl: "If I relieve the target person of the work of thinking, the whole thing loses its effect and, in my opinion, becomes pointless."
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One thing is certain: “Nobody intends to kill a Nazi!” His party distances itself “completely from the use of violence against humans and animals”.
On the other hand, he does not want to categorically rule out violence against things, says the 51-year-old, because "we like to destroy a beer or two".
“The party” wanted to deliberately initiate the debate
For the fun party, as the political group, which by its own account has a good 56,000 members nationwide, calls itself, the reporting is "of course worth gold," says the sales engineer happily. "The purpose of the poster is to provoke and generate attention - and that was achieved." However, the posters also wanted to start a debate as to whether the statement was true that "we are here in Germany - of course in many other countries as well." - have a problem with Nazis or not, whether we want to insult Nazis or, God forbid, assassinate them ”. Merkl defines a Nazi as a "National Socialist indoctrinated person who opposes the free-democratic basic order and wants to abolish it - for a dictatorial system".Even with the use of physical violence against those who think differently. "So when I say that these people kill other people, am I insulting the Nazis?"
Public prosecutor appreciates freedom of expression
After legal assessment of the election posters, the Deggendorf public prosecutor's office came to the conclusion that the slogan “Kill Nazis.” Is covered as an expression of opinion according to Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law.
Very important: There is a point behind the two words - the slogan "does not end like other poster messages of the association with an exclamation mark expressing a request", according to the law enforcement agency.
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