Several tweets from the Bavarian Economics Minister suggest that he may have publicly praised himself with a second account. This brings him a lot of malicious comments on the net.
Bavaria’s Economics Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger caused a stir on Twitter on Friday with supposed self-praise. The Free Voters boss felt compelled to react quickly: He explained that he had only forwarded the relevant text – and added an actually somewhat older original tweet as evidence. “Mr. Aiwanger, we need more politicians like you, with brains and pragmatism. With an ear to the citizen. And not like many other unworldly people in cloud cuckoo land! You are a fighter and have worked hard for your position as Bavarian Economics Minister against resistance”, that’s what it said on Friday on Aiwanger’s Twitter account – without another author being recognizable.
This quickly brought Aiwanger a lot of malice and ridicule. “Crystal Mett already legal in Bavaria?” FDP Vice Johannes Vogel scoffed on Twitter, alluding to a recent slip of the tongue by Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). Some Twitter users also quickly expressed the suspicion that Aiwanger could have a second account just to praise himself – and then he forgot when tweeting which account he was currently logged in to.
Aiwanger rejected this: He “only forwarded it as others commented,” he wrote on the short message service. And also tweeted the screenshot of an original tweet with the Aiwanger hymn of praise, from a Twitter account called “Peter Müller”.