Joe Chialo: Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls Berlin’s cultural senator “Hofnarr”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) described the Berlin cultural senator Joe Chialo at a private celebration. The incident occurred on February 2 at a birthday party of the entrepreneur Harald Christ, in which around 300 politicians, journalists and other guests were present. Scholz is now faced with allegations of racism.

The editor-in-chief of the “Focus” magazine, Georg Meck, who was also present, had made the process public in a report on Wednesday. Accordingly, Scholz discussed the joint coordination of the Union and AfD in the Bundestag a few days earlier. The Union assumed that the Chancellor assumed that the right -wing populists are considered. Thereupon the black CDU politician Chialo is said to have joined the discussion.

Chialo asked the Chancellor whether he really accuses the CDU racism, a party in which he was a member of the federal executive board. According to “Focus”, Scholz is said to have replied that every party “has their court fools”. The Federal Chancellor’s choice of words became the star confirmed by several participants. Other guests of the event report this starhow upset chialo was after the incident.

So far, Joe Chialo has only told several media that there was “an incident”, but he did not want to comment in more detail. Scholz has now confirmed that there has been a conversation.

In a statement by the Federal Chancellor it says that in a conversation “between me and a journalist” at a private birthday party about the joint voting behavior of the CDU/CSU and AfD in the German Bundestag. “Furthermore, the question was whether this could be repeated and who openly addressed this break in taboo within the CDU.”

On the indication that there were also liberal voices in the CDU, Scholz replied “that very few liberal voices in the CDU had voted against the behavior of the CDU chairman and reported critically”. This note came after star-Chialo information.

Scholz is now faced with allegations of racism. If the Federal Chancellor committed “this racist derailment”, CDU vice-chief Karin Prien wrote on X, he had to “immediately” apologize to Chialo and the CDU. Prien wrote who showed such “character and political deficits”. Other Union politicians demanded an apology from the Federal Chancellor.

The host of the party, Harald Christ, told him star: “When the dialogue between Chancellor Scholz and the Senator Chialo I was very valued by me, I was not present.” At the beginning of the evening, he pointed out the non-public character of the event. “The prerequisite for an evening in which you can and should be spoken openly is that there is no public report on personal conversations,” said Christ.

Christ, who used to be a SPD member, said: “But I know Olaf Scholz for a long time and good enough to say: It is absurd to put the Federal Chancellor into the corner of a racist.”

Scholz now defends himself against the allegation of racism. He explains in his statement: “The term I have related to it is not mutually connoted in language use and was never intended by me. The accusation of racism is absurd and artificially constructed. Personally, I appreciate Joe Chialo as an important liberal voice in the Union. “

SPD general secretary Matthias Miersch criticized the reporting, accused “Focus Online” of deliberately putting the statement from Scholz “in a racist context”. “Olaf Scholz has therefore started legal steps and switched on media lawyer Christian Schertz.”

The law firm does not take place against the entire report of the FOCUS, but against a sentence in reporting. This emerges from a press release. This sentence – in which Chialo’s skin color is mentioned – was central to the accusation of racism, but was complemented in truth, argues the law firm. Scholz “never made the wording”.