As of: February 6, 2024, 11:08 a.m
By: Hans Kürzl
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Older people in particular came to the Green Market on Sunday afternoon to take part in the rally for democracy.
© Peter Weber
The rally in Puchheim attracted 400 people who peacefully listened to the speeches.
The signal: We stand for democracy and against right-wing extremism.
All in all, everyone loved each other - only the CSU local branch was represented with a protest against the protest.
Puchheim
– You could say that the rally in Puchheim was exemplary.
400 people took part.
They showed boxes with labels on them, everything peaceful, not shrill, not using any means to grab headlines.
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Those who were scheduled to speak at the event, such as Marianne Lindner-Köhler, also adhered to this.
She has lived in Puchheim with her family since 2008 and frequently appears at poetry slams as Mary Long.
The woman, born in Switzerland in 1981, knows how to use a stage.
As a Swiss citizen, she is not allowed to vote in local or European elections.
But: “Even if I’m not allowed to vote, I can still raise my voice.” And what’s just as important to her: “I have the choice of what I can teach my children.” It’s simply important to stand up for democracy.
“It’s incredibly great what has gathered here.”
At the Green Market it was mostly the older people who came.
Nevertheless, the younger people are represented: in the form of the youth advisory board chairman Fabian Scheiber.
“Democracy is natural to me because I grew up with it,” says the 23-year-old.
This makes it all the more important for him to use his voice to strengthen democracy.
“Because radicalism destroys our coexistence,” as Achim Puhl, the managing director of the adult education center, puts it.
In addition to the city, it is one of the co-organizers of the protest.
Puhl explicitly mentions two examples, the Union of Values and the AfD in Thuringia, that need to be addressed.
“Right-wing radical views must not be trivialized.” One of the protesters puts it this way on his poster: “Human rights instead of right-wing people.”
Puchheim's mayor Norbert Seidl therefore warns against falling for simple solutions like those offered by the AfD.
“Simple solutions gave rise to war and the final solution 90 years ago.” Such a look into the past must be enough of a warning.
Like Puhl, Seidl also emphasizes how important it is that all democratic forces stand together.
CSU local leader Dominik Schneider protested against the form of the event © Peter Weber
That's why he was "very pleased" to note that all factions represented in the city council came to the protest.
A small party political spike then follows: “Only one local association has maneuvered itself into a dead end,” says Seidl in the direction of the CSU local chairman Dominik Schneider.
His poster read: “Every extremist is rubbish.” In the run-up to the event, Schneider had seen the scope of the protest as being too narrowly focused only on right-wing radicals.
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