CSU boss
Söder criticizes Reichinnek statement in the star: “Understood nothing”
In an interview with the star Says left-wing parliamentary group leader Heidi Reichinnek: “That in the GDR was not socialism.” CSU boss Markus Söder reacts with clear criticism.
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) can hardly believe it. In a video post on Instagram, he asks, accompanied by martial music: “Did you see that? Heidi Reichinnek from the Left says that the GDR was not socialism. Sorry, what else?”
The left-wing faction leader Heidi Reichinnek had in an interview with the star Said on Wednesday: “Well, that in the GDR was not socialism. So not the way my party imagines it.”
She emphasized that the left is striving for democratic socialism. “For a utopia that we can reach in steps. And a first step would be to return the public service to the public sector. Living, traffic, health, education. And we want to redistribute wealth. Instead of just managing the misery. It doesn’t work with a few corrections.”
On the counter question “So socialism. It didn’t really work in the past, was it?” Reichinnek replied with the GDR statement criticized by Söder.
Markus Söder demands brand wall to the left
“The GDR was pure socialism!”the CSU boss is now against it in his video. “The GDR was an injustice state.” The left is the successor party of the SED (socialist unit party in Germany) and the successor organization of the parties that the GDR would have shaped.
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“Apparently nothing understood, nothing changed and that’s why I stay with it: no collaboration with the Union with the left!” The fire wall must also stand as usual. However, Söder does not mention Reichinnek’s remark that GDR socialism did not correspond to socialism how the left imagined it.
The video from Thursday has already received more than 14,000 likes in the evening.
Voices of the left for the constitutional judge necessary
A fire wall on the left, as Söder demands it, should not be easy to maintain – at least if you want to hold the AfD outside. This will be shown in autumn at the upcoming election of constitutional judges. As is well known, the first attempt failed in July because the Union had rejected the SPD candidate. The votes of the left are necessary for the choice.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz had on Sunday in ZDF-“Summer interview” As a precaution, noted that this is a “fairly difficult process” become. Because of the necessary two -thirds majority “either agree with the AfD or from the Left Party MP”.
RW / with material from the AFP and Reuters news agencies
Source: Stern
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