Political Ash Wednesday: Nobody needs this ritual! (Opinion)

At least this appearance is spared the republic. Friedrich Merz does not want to go to Apolda this Wednesday, stand in the local brewery hall and call as on previous occasions that here, in Thuringia, is not Berlin-Kreuzberg. Or so.

Instead, the CDU chairman, like SPD colleague Lars Klingbeil in Berlin, remains in Berlin to talk to him about the rather complex project called the Federal Government. Work instead of agitation. Bionade instead of beer.

And that’s a good thing. Merz shows that at least here he sets the right priorities. For pragmatic negotiations and against Polemical party folklore, which would only make trusting negotiations difficult.

Only the CSU boss, whatever else, skipped in the capital, true to the motto: a Markus Söder always does what he wants. The others should negotiate about this strange coalition.

But what does Söder actually want to say in Passau? That the SPD is Deppert and Saublöd too? That the AfD in Bavaria only came to a mere 19 (nineteen) percent? Or that everything that the Union said before the election was a single great rubbish?

Okay, with the Greens losers, you always work, the rest does the alcohol. However, regardless of this, the ash medium -week ritual, which has always been embarrassed by latent, no longer fits this dramatic time, which deals with significantly more than a few particularly inexpensive points at the expense of political competition.

The question of what this political fair brings out besides polarization has never been answered in a meaningful way. Yes, if the speeches were not so difficult, at least one entertainment value could be measured. But unfortunately the German political company is even more unpleasant than the unpleasantest carnival club.

How about a proposal to kindness: If you absolutely want to drink too much beer for brass music beyond Oktoberfest, village fair or similar festivities on Ash Wednesday: just too! But politics should reserve your self -funding – and the examination of the political competition with the parliaments and election campaigns.

This also serves to avoid errors. For example Friedrich Merz. “On the left is over,” he called the day before the Bundestag election in Munich. He would make politics for the majority who still have “all cups in the closet”, but not “for some Greens and left -wing spinners”. In addition, he used Walter Lübcke’s death for demagogic false claim.

The CDU chairman, Upsi, had held his Ash Wednesday speech in advance and thus already caused sufficient damage. That is why he no longer has to go to Apolda.