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Now politics is being done again, officially. Wednesday lunchtime, the first meeting of the German Bundestag this young year. After a minute’s silence for the late CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas calls on the first item on the agenda: the questioning of the federal government. The fact that Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, of all people, is ushering in the political 2024 is due to the rotation principle. Given the mood in the country, perhaps a logical coincidence.
A wave of protests is overwhelming the Federal Republic and its government, and Habeck has also been affected. A few days ago, the Green politician was welcomed from his short vacation by an angry mob. The chaotic people apparently belonged to the right-wing milieu and had mingled with the farmers’ protests to get rid of their anger. Is something slipping? of a “climate of threat”, of “dark figures” against whom the “Republic” must be “defended”. In other words: the situation is serious.
Habeck in the Bundestag, slightly sniffy and with a scratchy voice, does not go into detail about the episode or its exegesis, concentrating on what he has planned to do in the economics department. The elephant in the room is brought up by his cabinet colleague Svenja Schulze from the Development Ministry, who also answers the MPs’ questions. The addressee of the drastic words can be clearly located on the far right in the semicircle of the Reichstag: the AfD.
Source: Stern
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