“Order against animal seriousness”
“Flight dwarf from the middle class”: CDU demands apology from Strack-Zimmermann for carnival speech
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, FDP defense politician, as a vampire in the “Order against animal seriousness”
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A carnival speech by FDP defense politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann caused amusement on the internet. But the CDU does not find this so funny. Because the speech contained critical remarks about CDU leader Friedrich Merz.
Because of critical remarks against CDU leader Friedrich Merz in a carnival speech, his party is demanding an apology from the FDP defense politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. “That was another fall short of decent handling and decent language,” said CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja of the “Rheinische Post”. You don’t behave like the chairman of the defense committee, “not even at carnival.” He expects Strack-Zimmermann to apologize to Merz “and to express that it was a lapse”.
Czaja wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon: “The bizarre appearance of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann marks a new level low even for her standards. For a handful of applause from red-green she broke all the boundaries of decent dealings. Such an embarrassment has with #Carnival unrelated to.” The hashtag #StrackZimmermann trended on the social media. Users celebrated the FDP politician there.
In a speech at the award of the “Order against animal seriousness” in Aachen on Saturday, Strack-Zimmermann described the CDU chairman – without explicitly naming him – as a “mid-sized aircraft dwarf” that “no one has twice”. wanted because it was hard to bear.
Strack-Zimmermann reacts to criticism
The FDP politician also accused Merz, who was sitting in the audience, of not taking the Reich citizen scene seriously. “If a Nazi prince goes too wild, then the flying dwarf suddenly becomes mild,” she rhymed. Strack-Zimmermann also addressed Merz’s comments in the debate about the riots on New Year’s Eve: “If a boy’s name is Ali and not Sascha, he insults him as an elementary school pasha.”
However, Strack-Zimmermann also lashed out in other directions: she called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “vodka dwarf” and a war criminal. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) called her “Chancellor Dwarf” with “severe amnesia” – probably in reference to his statements in the Cum-Ex scandal.
The traffic light coalition described Strack-Zimmermann as their “first threesome”, which she commented with the comment: “Who would have thought before the election that such a smut would be fun.”
Strack-Zimmermann responded to the criticism on Twitter on Tuesday. “I think it’s okay if people can’t laugh at my speech. Carnivalism is not God-given. But apparently it’s worth asking your esteemed colleague Hendrik Wüst (CDU) for a better humorous understanding,” she wrote about a photo , which shows Wüst and an apparently unenthusiastic Merz at the carnival event.
Sources: DPA news agency, Twitter