As of: February 29, 2024, 1:36 p.m
By: Helmi Krappitz
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The CDU is currently touring through Germany and presenting its new basic program.
There was a surprising interruption in reporting in Hanover.
Hanover - At the CDU regional conference in Hanover, members, including party leader Friedrich Merz, discussed the basic program for the next few years.
An NDR reporter was supposed to report what this entails in a live broadcast of the program “Hello Lower Saxony”.
But that didn't go as planned.
“Do it somewhere else”: Participants at the CDU event interrupt the live broadcast and almost go to the microphone
Katharina Seiler was on site, ready to explain the results of the event.
While the party leader is on stage, Seiler talks about Merz's ambitions for the next election campaign.
In the background you can see a man approaching Seiler, stepping up the small gallery and grabbing the NDR microphone.
What the CDU member said to her was incomprehensible - only the words “do it somewhere else” were clearly audible.
Seiler was visibly surprised and irritated.
She still tried to smile into the camera.
When the party member realized the camera was recording, he backed away.
Before the control cut off the switch, you could see Seiler putting her hand on the man's shoulder.
A pair of CDU members in the audience had already turned around.
Back in the studio, NDR presenter Jan Starkebaum apologized for the disruption.
“Older delegates felt disturbed”: Reporter stood in the right position at the CDU regional conference
It later became clear that the politician's behavior was unfounded.
Seiler stood in the position intended by the CDU, explained Thorsten Hapke, editor-in-chief at NDR Lower Saxony.
“Nevertheless, a group of older delegates felt disturbed, one of them so much that he wanted to cancel the switch,” he wrote under a video of the incident on the X platform.
The CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann then apologized “which was not necessary, no one can blame individual misconduct,” he added.
“Case settled.”
The NDR reporter is said to have stood in the intended position.
© Screenshot “Hello Lower Saxony”/NDR
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The incident in Hanover was not the first time that a link to a CDU event had to be interrupted.
At a district party conference in Mannheim in 2021, CDU representative Thomas Hornung spoke vehemently to SWR reporter Natalie Akbari.
She asked him to talk to him after the broadcast, but he couldn't be shaken off.
She then canceled the live broadcast.
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