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Spahn at the Stockach Fools' Court
Photo: Fabian Sommer / dpa
Ex-Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) teased FDP top politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and backed CDU leader Friedrich Merz.
"Better a flying dwarf from Sauerland than a poison dwarf from Düsseldorf," said Spahn on the sidelines of the Stockach Narrengericht carnival event on Thursday evening.
Without explicitly mentioning her name, Spahn must have meant Strack-Zimmermann.
The politician was born in Düsseldorf and was Deputy Mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital from 2008 to 2014.
Spahn reacted with his tip to Strack-Zimmermann's controversial attack on Merz in a carnival-style handmade speech.
On the occasion of the recording of the presentation of the Aachen carnival order "Against the animal seriousness" on February 2nd, she described the hobby pilot Merz - without explicitly naming him - as a "mid-sized aircraft dwarf" who "no one wanted twice" because he was hard to bear.
Representatives of the CDU and CSU had sharply criticized the tone of the speech after the ARD broadcast on February 4th.
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