An embarrassing election poster mishap causes ridicule and malice in Lower Saxony and beyond. The Greens’ top candidate, Julia Willie Hamburg, made a faux pas on her poster and turned Lower Saxony into “Lower Saxony”.
“From Hanover. For Lower Saxony.” Lower Saxony? Yes, you read that right! The Greens in Hanover made this spelling mistake. At Niedersachsand forgot the “s”. Well, that can happen. It’s just annoying that it was printed like this on election posters. According to the , this error can be seen on a total of 300 double posters of the top candidate Julia Willie Hamburg.
How did the faux pas come about? Mathis Weselmann, managing director of the Green City Association in Hanover, told the “HAZ”: “We mistakenly printed an older corrected version of the posters.” The error was only noticed when the posters were hung up – and when the reactions on social media appeared. And they are sometimes very harsh, especially when it comes to political competition.
Scorn and ridicule from the political competition
Tilman Kuban, federal chairman of the Junge Union and member of the Bundestag, wrote on Twitter: “I’ll buy an ‘s’ and solve Lower Saxony. If the top candidate can’t even spell the country, she shouldn’t govern it!”
The AfD in the Verden district only commented: “The concentrated competence of the Greens!”
Katarina Barley, Vice-President of the European Parliament and former SPD Minister in Germany, took it with a little more humor, but asked: “Isn’t anyone reading that?”
Particularly embarrassing: As the tweets show, Hamburg had posed for a photo for Instagram itself with the faulty poster. The post on Instagram has since been deleted. Hamburg has published a new photo on the social network for this. Lying on the floor: the posters with mistakes.
“Lower Saxony” – an expensive mistake
As the and the report, the error on the posters should now be pasted over until the new posters come out of the printer. Cost: more than 1500 euros.
Greens managing director Weselmann remains calm. “We just have to take that with humor now,” he tells NDR.
On October 9th, the people of Lower Saxony will elect a new state parliament. Hamburg has been a member of Bündnis90/Die Grünen since 2007 and was deputy state chair of the Greens in Lower Saxony from 2011 to 2013, later also state chair. She has been a member of the state parliament in Hanover since February 2013.
Sources: NDR; “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”, RND, Twitter
Source: Stern
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