Election campaign with the hairdressers
And then Kubicki says: “It can be great to stylish yourself”
At the “Party Congress of the Hairdressers”, top politicians come to a surplus competition: Who often goes to the hairdresser? Scenes from a hairy election campaign.
With an almost hair -split surcharge competition, the federal political elite draws attention to itself: “I like to go to the hairdresser,” says Felix Banaszak, chairman of the Greens, short, dark curls.
“I’m probably all three or four weeks with the hairdresser,” said Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil from the SPD, cut the hair a little shorter on the side than above.
Wolfang Kubicki goes one step further: “More often than I can not go to the hairdresser,” says the FDP politician, pronounced receded reciprocal councils. Oh right?
And Gregor Gysi from the left, the bald head shines above the rest of the hair wreath, fundamentally confesses: “I cannot and do not imagine a country without hairdressing shops.”
No, this is election campaign. Or otherwise: that is also the election campaign. While the big political discussion focuses on migration less than four weeks before the Bundestag election, hairdressers from all over the country came together in Berlin on Monday. Even in the heated situation after the murders of Aschaffenburg, the announced top politicians have not canceled that they all run up at the “Party Congress of the Hairdressers”, organized by the “Imsalon” industry.
In the election campaign one also says: “And I want people to be well styled”
Admittedly, it was associated with relatively little effort to briefly drive out of the government district into the Bolle Festival at the small zoo, and a bit to vote. Driving time by car: five minutes. Jens Spahn, Union faction vice (hairstyle: inconspicuous) and Amira Mohamed Ali from the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (glossy curls, fricitally styled) came. Unlike their colleagues present, however, they do not reveal how often they actually sit in the salon.
Spahn made it easy to make up when it was floated. There are “a few professions in which you can tell so much what is going on in the country,” says the CDU man. “You probably don’t need surveys when you talk to them.” Then maybe test a few important CDU demands?
A party colleague Spahn’s spahn takes this into his own hands: “If these are people who cut hair and collect citizenship at home, I can help them,” said Klaus-Peter Willsch, CDU member of the Bundestag than the fight against undeclared work. “We will abolish the citizens’ money!” Applause gave up in the ballroom. You will support those who really needed it, says Willsch. “But those who can work should work.” – “Yes!”, “Just!”, “Finally!” Sounds back from the hall.
The position of the left Gysi shouldn’t be, but he too is well received by the audience. After all, the 77-year-old calls himself a “silver bell”. That is “damn funny,” says the moderator.
In any case, “Silberlocke” Gysi, one of the three old people who want to save the Left Party with the help of a direct mandate won to the Bundestag, seemed to like the idea that the hairdressers could be particularly useful in this project. The revolution from below, all over the country? The subversion at Undercut? There are constant discussions in the hairdressers, Gysi states, maybe sometimes convinced whom. In any case, he has a wish: “I do not want any further legal development, I don’t want to be restricted by democracy, and I want people to be well styled.”
Minister of Labor: “We have more and more barbershops in my hometown”
It is not entirely clear how much the politicians have previously dealt with the situation of the hairdressers in the country – and whether something will really change for them in the future. In any case, Kubicki confesses: “The fact that the industry is obviously so standing on the wall with my back was not aware of that”.
After all, everyone present asserts that they wanted to act against the undeclared work that is rampant in the industry. The traffic light had already announced. With the premature break of the government, the so -called black work control law no longer occurred. In the hairdressers, everyone, SPD, Greens, FDP, but also the CDU promise that this law will not be forgotten after the election. He was sure that this would come – “no matter who the government is putting,” says Kubicki from the FDP.
It is a central demand for the owners of the approximately 80,000 salons in the country. The industry is particularly confronted with undeclared work, since hair can also be cut relatively easily in the private environment. “In times of scarce coffers, undeclared work is probably the most growing segment in our craft,” says an industry paper. There are no controls. “Companies with obviously questionable businesses should at least feel the pressure of possible punishments.”
He knows the problem, says Hubertus Heil. “We have more and more barbershops in my hometown in Lower Saxony,” says the Federal Minister of Labor, “and some are money laundering facilities.” One has to make sure that “everyone sticks to the right and law, and that the honest people, their entrepreneurs, are not the stupid.”
Despite all the kindness, the politicians don’t make it that easy. The request of the hairdressing industry for a discounted VAT of seven percent to washing, cutting, coloring, dyeing, blow -drying everyone clearly rejects – and are booed.
Wait a minute, everyone? Not one: Amira Mohamed Ali has hoped for a simple point victory. You could make the promise. She was one of the two party leaders of the BSW, and she was in favor of adding this point to the election program. “I think that’s right.”
Gysi throws in: “Your program has already been decided, so you can’t get it into it anymore” and quires with laughter. What Mohamed Ali replies goes under in the laugh of the hall.
All others agree on this point: In view of the tight cash register, the most important thing is that the economy brings again. This is the only way to spend money for hair and beauty.
FDP man Kubicki: Wuschelkopf is nice, but …
In any case, Kubicki sees the situation like this: “Wuschelkopf is beautiful, but a hairstyle is not bad either.” And while one is still wondering whether this pointed marriage is directed against the BSW boss or the Greens chairman, Kubicki goes one step further: He demands a “social feeling” for “that it can be great to tie up stylish” . Politics at the limit, that could also be a message of this “party convention of hairdressers”.
After this wild ride, it is coordinated: Who was best received in the hall?
The “coalition of the hairdressers”? Drum roll! A coalition of CDU/CSU and left, both come to 23 percent. The hall breaks out in laughter. Soon will be real Bundestag election. The hairdressers wish you a lot of fun.
Source: Stern
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