After a statement by the FDP politician about Friedrich Merz in a Bütten speech in early February, criticism from the Union rained down. Jens Spahn now starts a verbal counterattack.
Former Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) teased FDP top politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and backed CDU leader Friedrich Merz. “Better a flying dwarf from the Sauerland than a poison dwarf from Düsseldorf,” said Spahn on the sidelines of the Stockach Narrengericht carnival event last night.
Without explicitly mentioning her name, Spahn must have meant Strack-Zimmermann. The politician was born in Düsseldorf and was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital from 2008 to 2014.
Sharp criticism from the CDU and CSU
Spahn reacted with his tip to Strack-Zimmermann’s controversial attack on Merz in a carnival-style handmade speech. On the occasion of the recording of the award ceremony of the Aachen Carnival Order “Against the animal seriousness” on February 2nd, she described the hobby pilot Merz – without explicitly naming him – as a “mid-sized flight dwarf” who “nobody wanted twice” because he was hard to bear.
Representatives of the CDU and CSU had sharply criticized the tone of the speech after the ARD broadcast on February 4th.
Source: Stern
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