Flag discussion: Merz to rainbow flag on the CSD: Bundestag “no circus tent”

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed to Christopher Street Day (CSD) behind the course of Bundestag president Julia Klöckner. In the ARD talk show “Maischberger”, the CDU leader said when asked how he thinks that Klöckner does not want to hoist the rainbow flag for the CSD on the Bundestag: “The Bundestag is now not a circus tent”, on which you can cut flags.

There is a day of May 17th – this is the day against homophobia – on which the rainbow flag is being hoisted. “On the German Bundestag, the German flag and the European flag are hoisted on the German Bundestag and no other. And this decision is correct.” Everyone can whiten what they want at their own front door, said the Chancellor. “But we’re talking about the German Parliament and in the German parliament not any flags are hung every day, but the German national flag and the European flag.”

Klöckner’s decision that the rainbow flag on parliament was not raised to Christopher Street Day on July 26, among other things, was criticized by the Greens and the left.

The rainbow flag stands for the diversity and the cooperation that is celebrated on the CSD. Likewise, on the day of the oppression of homosexuals, bisexual and transgender people is intended-especially with a view to the Stonewall tunals in the Christopher Street 1969 in New York.