As of: February 2, 2024, 4:10 p.m
By: Andreas Schmid
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Fabian Mehring with Prime Minister Markus Söder appointing the cabinet members.
Mehring is the Bavarian State Minister for Digital in the new cabinet.
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The Bavarian Digital Minister Fabian Mehring will not appear at a demo “against the right”.
He senses an “election campaign for the center-left.”
The organizer objects.
Augsburg - This weekend there will be several demonstrations against right-wing extremism in Bavaria and throughout Germany.
This is also the case in the peace city of Augsburg.
The Alliance for Human Dignity Augsburg and Swabia is inviting people to the “Rally Augsburg against the Right – for Diversity and Democracy” event on Saturday.
Several political representatives are also there.
The Free Voters Minister Fabian Mehring, who was born in Augsburg, is not one of them.
He would like to speak.
Roth employee is initiator of the Augsburg demo: “Gschmäckle”
Mehring wrote on social media on Friday that he "as Augsburg State Minister and one of the most prominent anti-AfD speakers in the state parliament, would have liked to speak there." However, the organizers informed his office manager that ministers were not welcome.
Mehring is Minister for Digital in the Söder cabinet.
“Funny, but okay... Now Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth from the Greens is speaking,” writes Mehring and says: “Anyone who disinvites bourgeois ministers and invites Green ministers raises the question of what it’s all about: together against right-wing EXTREMISM or just an election campaign for the center -Left?” In an interview with the
Münchner Merkur,
Mehring reiterates this position.
Green politician Roth was born in Ulm, but her federal constituency is in Augsburg.
One of the initiators of the Augsburg event is Augsburg city council member Matthias Lorentzen.
The Green politician is also Roth's research assistant in the Bundestag.
Mehring sees it as “a treat,” as they say in Swabia.
“Mr. Mehring was never disinvited”
When asked by Münchner Merkur,
the organizer appeared
irritated by Mehring's statements.
The Alliance for Human Rights would have offered “every democratic party” that Augsburg representatives from the state parliament and the Bundestag have their say.
The Free Voters then suggested state politician Bernhard Pohl, whose constituency is in Swabia.
“We are very surprised by the statements made by State Minister Dr.
Fabian Mehring,” it says when asked.
“We assumed that the Free Voters had clarified within the party who their representative was at the rally.” As Mr. Pohl’s party office confirmed to us, he will speak in Augsburg on Saturday.
The organizer goes on to say: “We would like to invite Fabian Mehring, like all other MdLs, to come to the rally and clarify with Mr. Pohl who will say the sentences for the Free Voters.
An invitation from Dr.
Mering did not exist through the board of the Alliance for Human Dignity.” Mehring himself will not speak on Saturday.
“After my offer to perform in Augsburg was rejected, I agreed to other dates that I can no longer cancel at such short notice,” explains Mehring.
“But I offered the organizer in a personal phone call that I would like to be there next time as the Augsburg minister.
If we want to stand up to extremists, all Democrats must pull together.”
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The demo in Augsburg begins on Saturday at 2 p.m. on the town hall square.
The police and organizers expect almost 10,000 participants for the event, which has also been called by the two sports clubs FC Augsburg and Augsburger Panther.
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