Political crime
“Call of help”: Local politicians turn to Grünen-Spitze
Attacks on politicians have repeatedly made headlines in the past election campaigns. Local politicians from Thuringia have now turned to their party leadership.
Greens party leader Felix Banaszak has been concerned about descriptions of hate and agitation by Thuringian local politicians. He takes it very seriously, said Banaszak on request. Previously, the “Spiegel” had reported that two Greens municipal politicians Banaszak and co-party chairman Franziska Brantner had described the difficult situation in the rural Thuringian area in a letter. “This letter to you is a desperate cry for help, because: We don’t know what to do anymore,” quoted the magazine from the letter from Matthias Kaiser and Felix Kalbe from Gotha.
In the letter, which, according to the “Spiegel” is dated on 16, the two politicians report on the information that more and more members are to go back from the active party life. It has become dangerous to be a member of the Greens in rural Thuringia. In the election campaigns of the past year, it was normal to be insulted or spit on the open road as a greener. “Hate messages were glued to our office windows almost weekly. Sayings like” We hang green on “were commonplace,” quoted the magazine from the letter.
Similar letter to state interior minister
Kaiser, who is sitting for the Greens in the Gotha district council, and Kalbe, member of the Gotha city council, had already contacted State Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) in a similar letter. “With our letters we wanted to make it clear how serious the situation here is here in Gotha,” said Kalbe of the German Press Agency. It stands on behalf of numerous rural regions such as that existed in Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt.
“We urgently need political backing: The Thuringian Interior Minister Georg Maier now has to act and ensure that municipal mandates can be exercised without fear,” said Kalbe. At the same time, as a party, the Greens would have to examine how they remained politically active in rural regions.
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Banaszak announced for the letter to the Greens tip, the physical and mental strain that the two described was an expression of a political reality that had to alert all democrats. “Because where volunteers fall silent, social cohesion falter.” The Greens had already decided to bundle of measures to strengthen the structures of the party in the east. The goal is also more presence and support on site.
dpa
Source: Stern
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