Election campaign
Karl Lauterbach apologizes for Auschwitz-Post to Friedrich Merz
In a post, Karl Lauterbach has associated Friedrich Merz and the Auschwitz Memorial Day-and thus significantly painted out in the election campaign.
The election campaign goes into the hot phase, the verbal exchange of blows between the politicians is getting tougher. Even on the day of commemoration for the liberation of Auschwitz, party politics is not silent. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach beat the strands.
On X, the SPD politician mentioned the plans of CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and the concentration camp in the one breath. Lauterbach wrote on the platform: “Today, on the day 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we conduct the bird shooting debate and Friedrich Merz courted AfD. As a democrat, he basically says: where it helps me, I can also be supported by Nazis . Morally bankruptcy. “
Karl Lauterbach deletes post about Friedrich Merz
The Social Democrat received a lot of criticism for his statement, not only from the CDU. He was accused of exploiting the Holocaust for the Bundestag election campaign and moving Merz close to the Nazi crimes. CDU general secretary Linnemann called Lauterbach’s words “a complete derailment” and demanded the minister to be dismissed. Nevertheless, the post stayed online for almost four hours.
Then Lauterbach deleted the text and showed himself to be rumbly. His statement was “out of place in tone and content”, he confessed. “We are in the election campaign. But it has to be decency,” Lauterbach continued. At Friedrich Merz he apologized for the post.
In December, the CDU, CSU, SPD, Greens, FDP and Left Party agreed on a fairness agreement for the election campaign before the new election. Personal degrees or attacks on the personal or professional environment of the political competitors should be avoided.
Lauterbach’s trouble sparked Friedrich Merz’s advance of bringing applications for a harder migration policy into the Bundestag. The CDU boss would also accept votes from the AfD, as he said: “If you want to agree to these applications, you should agree. And if you reject it, I should not look on it. Only straight away these questions. ” In the application itself, the AfD is clearly referred to by the Union faction as a political opponent.
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