Dispute over rainbow flag
“A clown as a chancellor”: Friedrich Merz receives criticism for “circus tent” saying
Chancellor Friedrich Merz also commented on the rainbow flag at the Bundestag at “Maischberger”. What he said also outraged the coalition partner.
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 – that 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 rip flags on their own front door, [wie] He wanted, the Chancellor said. “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.”
With this, Merz triggered broad criticism – also in ranks of the coalition partner SPD. “This is a very unhappy statement. And the Federal Chancellor should rethink this statement again,” said SPD parliamentary group vice Armand in the RTL/NTV “early start”. In times when “queer people experience a particularly large number of hostility, I don’t think so is the right statement”.
A lot of criticism of Friedrich Merz
The Federal Government’s queer officer, Sophie Koch, also criticized. “When the rainbow flag is the flag on a circus tent, what are queer people?” Tell the SPD politician to the news portal “Zdfhute.de”. Especially in times when queer people would be attacked, the rainbow flag on the Bundestag would be a powerful commitment of the state to protect the Basic Law. “An understanding of this would be appropriate for a Chancellor.”
Thousands celebrate CSD in Hamburg – with clear demands
Opening with Confetti: The transparent “Du & I #Grechtspressen” reveals the motto of this year’s parade. At the forefront are Hamburg’s 1. Mayor Peter Tschentscher, SPD, the 2nd Mayor Katharina Fegebank, Greens, and Ricarda Lang as the party chairwoman of the Greens. The Ukrainian consul Iryna Tybinka, the politician Falko Drossmann, Hamburg’s great writer Peggy Parnass (front right in a wheelchair) and the singer Peter Sebastian are joining them. Tens of thousands of participants came together in Hamburg’s city center from 11.55 a.m. Hamburg Pride EV organizes the Christopher Street Day in Hamburg on a voluntary basis.
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SPDQueer – a SPD working group – demanded an apology. “This statement is not only disrespectful to the queer community, but also reveals a backward-looking understanding of democracy and representation,” said co-chair Carola Ebhardt. The Bundestag is the house of all citizens – also queer people. The queer -political spokesman for the left faction, Maik Brückner, said: It was true that the Bundestag is not a circus, “we have a clown as a chancellor.”
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