After the controversial statements made by politicians at a demonstration in Erding, the Bavarian SPD is now calling for a “demonstration of the reasonable”. The rally together with the Greens, trade unions, artists and workers’ welfare should begin on July 1 at 2 p.m. in Munich, announced SPD state leader Florian von Brunn.
For the SPD, the demonstration in Erding initiated by comedian Monika Gruber with Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and above all Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) was a political dam break. “Erding was the high point of the right-wing populist Kulturkampf so far. Aiwanger unscrupulously fueled the whole thing and Markus Söder attracted the attention of the media with his presence,” said von Brunn. The event was directed against the federal government’s heating law, which in certain cases provides for the replacement of heating systems using fossil fuels with systems that primarily work with renewable energy sources.
In front of an audience of 13,000, Economics Minister Aiwanger said, among other things, that people had to “take back democracy”. He was sharply criticized across parties for this sentence, which was reminiscent of the well-known AfD choice of words. The coalition partner CSU had also reprimanded Aiwanger, both publicly and internally in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The SPD demonstration should now demand constructive politics instead of a right-wing culture war, it said. The motto is “Cohesion and future – instead of regression and a shift to the right”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/. “People don’t want political divisions and disputes like those caused by Trump in the USA,” said von Brunn. “They want fair climate protection, affordable housing and good wages.” The reasonable are still the majority in the country.