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"Lower Saxony" instead of "Lower Saxony": error on the election poster of the Green politician Julia Willie Hamburg
Photo: Melissa Erichsen / dpa
The top candidate of the Greens for the state elections in Lower Saxony, Julia Willie Hamburg, has to cope with ridicule from the political competition because of a mistake on an election campaign poster.
On a motif that advertises a large portrait of Hamburg, a subline under the name of the Hanoverian says: "For Lower Saxony" - an s is missing.
The other parties sneered at the faux pas: "Sorry, but that's a bit embarrassing," wrote SPD politician and Internet activist Henning Tillmann on Twitter and posted a photo of Hamburg that she had published on Instagram.
The politician poses next to the poster in the image of Hamburg shared by Tillmann and has since been deleted – and apparently does not notice the mistake.
The federal chairman of the Junge Union, Tilman Kuban, also referred to the picture on Twitter and wrote: "If the top candidate can't even spell the country, she shouldn't govern it!" The AfD in the Verden district mocked, referring to the error the »concentrated competence of the Greens«.
In the meantime, only one other photo is visible on Hamburg's Instagram account, in which the faulty poster is lying on the floor.
In the associated post, the politician asks which motif her supporters like best.
One user replied: "The one with the spelling mistake".
Error should first be pasted over
There is already an explanation for the mishap: As Hamburg informed the NDR, an outdated file was sent to the commissioned printer.
Now the faux pas should first be eliminated with correction stickers until newly ordered and corrected posters arrive.
Accordingly, it is about a total of 600 prints.
According to the report, the new edition will cost the party 1,600 euros.
The managing director of the city association of the Greens in Hanover, Mathis Weselmann, is meanwhile practicing rhetorical damage limitation: "We just have to take that with humor," Weselmann told NDR.
Lower Saxony will elect a new state parliament on October 9th.
Hamburg has been a member of the Greens since 2007 and has been the leader of the party’s parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament since 2020.
She has been a member of the state parliament since 2013.
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