Too left, too green, too expensive: Helmut Markwort (FDP) criticizes public law and calls for reform

Created: 09/13/2022, 12:23 p.m

By: Andreas Sachsen

Helmut Markwort, FDP member of parliament, accuses the ÖRR of nepotism and waste.

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FDP member of parliament Helmut Markwort sharply criticized public broadcasting during a discussion in Unterfoehring.

He calls for reforms.

Unterföhring – Too far left, too green, too expensive: Focus founder Helmut Markwort (85) wants to reform public broadcasting (ÖRR).

With his not new, nevertheless provocative theses, the FDP member of the state parliament has now spoken to the Liberals in Unterföhring.

The scandal surrounding RBB director Patricia Schlesinger came at the right time.

In addition to CDU leader Friedrich Merz, Markwort is one of the most vocal advocates of structural reform in the ÖRR.

Only hours later, his speech in Unterföhring can be found almost exactly verbatim in his “diary” online in Focus.

Waterhead, felt, nepotism, waste: the allegations in the reform debate about the public service are well known.

As a journalist, Markwort knows how to take criticism to the extreme with catchy theses.

As a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, he knows how to present himself as an expert and as a lone fighter (“I know the most about it”).

Broadcasters controlled by a "green mafia"

His criticism was well received by the Unterfoehringer FDP, where Markwort spoke at the invitation of municipal councilor Veit Wiswesser and local chief Daniel Kortmann in the inn on Bahnhofstrasse.

The liberal leadership duo, Michael Ruoff and Jennifer Kaiser, rushed over from Munich to find out details from his immediate program, which Markwort intends to present at the next Liberal conference.

In Unterföhring, he carried the criticism of public broadcasters to extremes: the broadcasters were controlled by a “green mafia”.

Green and left forces are at the controls.

He took the "Schlesinger case" as an example to object to "self -service mentality on the executive floors".

It would be incredibly difficult to change that, since prime ministers in the countries would hold on to their benefits.

He declares the dual system of public law and private individuals to fail.

Commerce prevailed in the private counter-core-conservative counterparts.

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His words fell on fertile ground.

A young woman recalled being sidelined with criticism of vaccination during the pandemic.

One listener castigated "green-filthy" elected officials.

Coming out as a supporter of a bourgeois party would be considered “degoutant” (disgusting) in this day and age, Markwort agreed.

His proposals for a structural reform: 40 percent of the 8.4 billion euros in contributions flowed into programming.

The rest ends up in "many departments for administration and technology".

Markwort wants to centralize the public service.

Miniature radio stations such as Radio Bremen, which contribute little more to the variety of programs than the drawing of the lottery numbers, should be allowed to spend two hours in the evening regionally.

The WDR and the NDR, which is responsible for four countries, are positive examples:

“Is there a Radio Saxony or a Radio Thuringia?

No!"

In the structural reform of the ÖRR, Helmut Markwort found a drivee topic for himself and for the FDP for the state election 2023.

However, the 85-year-old no longer competes in the Munich-Land Süd voting circle, but in the Freising district.

More news from the district of Munich can be found here.