Paula Piechotta
Green Party politician calls Chancellor Scholz an “asshole”
The Green Party’s Paula Piechotta caused irritation with a harsh insult to the Chancellor. After criticism from the SPD, the politician didn’t mean it that way.
The Green Party housekeeper Paula Piechotta received criticism with a harsh insult from Chancellor Olaf Scholz and finally apologized. In a podcast, the Leipzig member of the Bundestag complained that Scholz was isolated in European politics and then said in this context: “I would say that the SPD has known Olaf Scholz for a very long time. Everyone in the SPD knows that Olaf Scholz is an asshole.”
The statement was heard in an episode of the “Ostgrün” podcast published on December 23rd, which Piechotta recorded with her party colleague and Leipzig local politician Martin Meißner. Several media outlets had previously reported.
Piechotta said: “Macron invites Selenskyj and Trump to Notre Dame – and Scholz isn’t even there. That’s dramatic.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President-elect Donald Trump attended the reopening ceremony of the cathedral in Paris in early December. Before that, a three-way meeting took place with French President Emmanuel Macron. Piechotta called the SPD chancellor a below-average head of government who had caused a disproportionate amount of damage in Europe.
Video removed, but excerpt still on X
The video for the podcast was made private on the YouTube platform in the evening, but there are still numerous corresponding excerpts with the controversial statement on the X platform.
The scandals of Olaf Scholz
Warburg Bank cum-ex scandal
It is an issue that simply does not stop for Olaf Scholz and is probably the most politically dangerous. The question is whether the Chancellor, as mayor of Hamburg, influenced a tax procedure in which the private Warburg Bank was initially forgiven almost 90 million euros.
The bank was involved in cum-ex transactions and, in a remarkable U-turn, the Hamburg tax office wanted to forgo reclaiming the funds. Only when the Federal Ministry of Finance intervened did the money come back into the state treasury. Explosive: Olaf Scholz met with the co-owner of the bank before the Hamburg tax office decided not to demand repayment. Scholz initially denied this. But diary entries from Christian Olearius, co-owner of the bank, reveal that the two men met at least three times on the matter.
Scholz himself stated in interviews that he no longer remembered the content of the conversations with the bankers. An investigative committee is still running in Hamburg
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Several SPD politicians criticized the Greens on X for their choice of words. Parliamentary group vice-president Detlef Müller wrote: “You simply don’t call the Chancellor a ‘Arxxxloch’. Basics of education and decency.”
Paula Piechotta apologizes after criticism from the SPD
Piechotta apologized in the evening on that Olaf Scholz can be described as such,” she wrote.
A few hours earlier, she had already announced that she wanted to remove the relevant passage from the podcast, but insisted that she had not insulted Scholz. She only reproduced internal SPD statements.
Shortly before Christmas, all parties represented in the Bundestag except the AfD and BSW agreed on a so-called fairness agreement for the election campaign. “We debate with respect for one another and refrain from personal denigration or attacks on the personal or professional environment of politicians,” it says.
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