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Around 20 senior masters from a wide range of industries let off a lot of steam in the district craftsmen's association on Sunday.
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The craftsmen in the Freising district have had enough: they have had enough of increasing bureaucracy and decreasing appreciation from politicians.
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- While the farmers take to the streets, the district craftsmen of Freising and Erding, Martin Reiter and Rudi Waxenberger, first wanted to try talking to the responsible members of the Bundestag.
Around 20 senior masters from a wide range of industries let off a lot of steam on Sunday and confronted the three members of the Bundestag present, some with serious accusations.
“Everything is excessive”
Waxenberger formulated one of them at the beginning like this: “Do you really think nothing of it anymore – or do you just want to get rid of the craft?” Martin Reiter also had to pull himself together during his introduction: “This back and forth upsets me so much.
Every week a different pig is driven through the village.” In his opinion, the government is saving the whole world while pensioners can no longer live on their pension.
“The regulations and the bureaucracy are all excessive,” added Waxenberger.
Christine Gruber from Erding was clearer here: “We are suffocating in bureaucracy because we are constantly accused of being criminals.” An example she gave: “I now have three cash registers in the basement because I constantly have to get a new one because of you need.
Let’s just work in peace.”
Facing a lot of headwind: (from left) MP Erich Irlstorfer (CSU), MP Andreas Mehltretter (SPD), the district master craftsmen Martin Reiter (Freising) and Rudi Waxenberger (Erding) as well as MP Andreas Lenz (CSU, Erding).
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Carpenter Georg Lippacher got a little louder: “Do you realize what you actually did there?
The home builder has lost trust in the government.
I'm wondering how much money you actually want from us.
Just be ashamed of yourself!”
Glazier Hans Hiedl from Freising also had a question for the politicians: “Do you actually no longer notice that people no longer vote for you?” What also bothered some: the fact that only academics sit in Berlin, who “never had “dirty hands”, while others attributed the strengthening of the AfD to government failure and sometimes demanded “balls in their pants” from politicians.
“Mood is bad”
Bundestag members Erich Irlstorfer (CSU), Andreas Mehltretter (SPD) from Freising and Andreas Lenz (CSU) from Erding were able to listen to the allegations.
According to Reiter, the invited Leon Eckert (Greens, Freising) had to cancel because of the state party conference.
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What quickly became clear: The three had not expected so much headwind.
“Yes, the mood is bad, and a lot of what is going on in Berlin is crazy,” explained Lenz, who also confirmed that the AfD thrives on exactly such problems but does not want to solve them at all.
“The problems are all homemade.
The traffic light parties simply don’t fit together,” said Irlstorfer’s explanation.
He also emphasized: “We shouldn't blame everything on the Ukraine war, the fact that everything in Germany is so disastrous.” And: “There are 4,000 people taking to the streets in Freising because of the law, but that's not an issue at the moment - it is an issue the economy."
But here Mehltretter chimed in: “Of course this is an issue right now – and if we don’t stand together now, then soon we won’t have to talk about the economy anymore.” Mehltretter also pointed out that not everything had gone badly – such as dealing with the energy crisis.
However, none of those present saw this like the SPD man.
Instead, Irlstorfer emphasized that Russia should not be left out economically despite what was happening in the war.
What he didn't like either, even though Mehltretter hadn't put it on the tablet: The SPD "always comes with the 16 years of CSU government, but you were there too."
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An interesting figure that Reiter put on the table: In 2023, things actually went well for the craftsmen, the companies in the Freising district had sales of around 1.4 billion euros.
However, the fear is that the profits could soon come to an end, which is why Reiter and Waxenberger scheduled the meeting in the first place.
Reiter said: “We don’t paint signs, we’d rather talk.”