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At Maischberger, Ricarda Lang took a stand on the simmering hatred against the Greens in Germany.
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The Greens are being met with increasing anger in Germany.
At “Maischberger”, Ricarda Lang takes a stand – and also takes Markus Söder to responsibility.
Berlin – Biberach, Magdeburg, Amtzell: Incidents of aggression from the population against the Greens have been increasing for a few weeks.
First there were riots surrounding the party's planned political Ash Wednesday in Biberach, and the event was canceled.
Then farmers blocked the departure of party leader Ricarda Lang at an event in Magdeburg; tires and barrels burned.
After all, a local politician in Amtzell was recently attacked with a punch in his front yard.
Developments that also worry party leader Lang.
She herself recently came into political focus, for example, she received a very flat but nasty joke from Markus Söder on the CSU Ash Wednesday.
A scene that subsequently caused constant back and forth between the Greens and the CSU.
“Söder and Aiwanger are pouring oil on the fire,” said Green MP Martin Stümpfig in an interview with
IPPEN.MEDIA
.
Lang also had to face the simmering anger against the Greens on Wednesday evening in the ARD talk on “Maischberger”.
Lang at Maischberger on the hatred against the Greens: “I couldn’t have imagined it a few months ago”
“To be honest, I couldn’t have imagined what we are currently experiencing even a few months ago,” reports Ricarda Lang about the wave of aggression that is sweeping her party.
Of course you have to be able to withstand a harsh tone or boos.
But it is important to look at when “the basic democratic consensus is being questioned,” explains Lang and reports on a scene from Biberach: “I had a conversation with a police officer on site and he told me: 'Mrs Lang, I had this We can never imagine what we are experiencing here.
These are men with whom I sit at the regular table.
These are the men I buy my potatoes from.
And here they point fingers at the police, break down police cars, and physically attack us too."
Lang also appeals to farmers to be careful that the protests could be infiltrated by right-wing radicals.
“I can only say to these people: Don’t let yourself be exploited by those who care about everything, but clearly not about the well-being of agriculture.”
“My Labrador was more entertaining”: On ARD, Lang counters the flat Söder joke from Ash Wednesday
With Maischberger, the Green party leader also has to face Söder's shallow joke at the CSU's political Ash Wednesday.
Söder had compared Lang with his dog Molly, who – unlike Lang – “at least has completed training”.
“Does that hurt?” moderator Maischberger wants to know – a question to which Lang clearly answers “no”.
“You roll your eyes once and then you carry on,” she says.
“I once had a Labrador and it was more entertaining than some failed Ash Wednesday jokes,” counters Lang, receiving applause from the audience.
Lang does not see a concrete connection between the aggression against her party and this joke from Söder; Ash Wednesday also includes a “strong saying”.
As Prime Minister, however, you should “consider whether you want to have Ash Wednesday 365 days a year or whether you also want to pursue responsible politics.”
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Lang fires back at Söder with an example of violence: “I ask myself, would he also stand in front of this man?”
Lang doesn't expect Söder to be very nice to her or to show much solidarity with the Greens.
She thinks it's much worse that "he now admits to these attacks and says - I would sum it up now - 'yes, it's stupid, but somehow it's his own fault'."
As a counterexample, she brings up a case from Amtzell, where a Green politician was knocked down in front of his house.
"And I ask myself, would a Markus Söder stand in front of this man and say to his face: 'Well, it's your own fault, don't be such a mimosa'?"
Maischberger wants to know how high the party's share of such reactions against the Greens is - for example through the introduction of the controversial heating law or the farmers' anger at cutting subsidies.
“The nice thing about a democracy is: If you find Ricarda Lang sick, if you think the traffic lights are really, really stupid, then you have alternatives.
Then you don’t have to vote for right-wing extremists, nor do you have to become violent,” explains Lang.
At the same time, she would not be fulfilling her responsibility as party leader if she were not concerned about the dwindling trust in democratic institutions or in the federal government.