The CDU advertised in a video for the federal election with a lateral thinker.
According to an extremism researcher, this is grossly negligent.
The party misunderstood the danger.
Cologne - A current election advertisement for the CDU has come under fire.
The reason is a sequence that shows Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet with the lateral thinker Thomas Brauner.
The man broke a cordon at an election campaign event in Erfurt and rushed onto the stage to see Laschet.
From the off, the voice in the campaign video says at the point that the CDU is concerned: “First think, then talk - and also with those who have a critical attitude.
Yes, especially with them. ”An extremism expert, however, disagrees.
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The journalist Olaf Sundermeyer has been dealing intensively with extremism in Germany for years. He stated in the WDR show “Current Hour” that Laschet reacted correctly to the situation. “First of all, first, secondly, ask questions,” the CDU boss replied to the lateral thinker. Then the man even got a chance to ask a question. He was concerned with the corona policy. However, staging this scene for the election campaign as dealing with critical opinions is "grossly negligent", attested Sundermeyer.
It is fundamentally important and right to stay in touch with people who have doubts, said Sundermeyer.
"But we are dealing with people here who we have long lost." Thomas Brauner is not a critic of the Corona measures, but a "staunch extremist who wants to overthrow this state in a way that is anti-democratic."
If politicians do campaigns with these people, as it is now in the form of Laschet's CDU, it shows that they have not properly recognized the danger posed by these people.
Bundestag election: criticism of CDU commercial - "Without decency, without attitude and without piety"
There was also criticism of the campaign video for the federal election from political opponents. SPD politician Karl Lauterbach wrote on Twitter: “Armin Laschet uses it to advertise that he let himself be yelled at by a lateral thinker who was close to the Nazis and who threatened him. While local politicians and others need to be protected from such people. Citizen-oriented is different. "The former SPD Federal Minister Katarina Barley said:" The bad thing is that the CDU knows exactly who it has included in its advertising film. They consciously settle in with these so-called lateral thinkers. "
The Green MP Janosch Dahmen wrote: On the same day that a citizen was murdered for enforcing the mask requirement in Idar-Oberstein, the CDU published a spot with a lateral thinker.
This video is a mockery for everyone who is fighting the virus with solidarity and commitment. "The deputy party leader of the Left, Martina Renner, summed up:" Without decency, without attitude and without piety. "
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