Status: 05/10/2022 09:29 am
Formally everything went correctly, but the criticism does not stop: The Union faction has criticized Defense Minister Lambrecht for her son flying in a government helicopter. Skepticism also comes from the FDP.
The Union faction has accused Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht of a political error because of a flight with her son with the ministry’s readiness to fly: “Using the Bundeswehr for private and party-political purposes is not stylish,” said the first parliamentary manager of the Union faction, Thorsten Frei, who ” Bild” newspaper:
As the holder of command and command authority, the defense minister should show more tact and not confuse the Air Force with Lufthansa.
Strack-Zimmermann: “unusual process”
The chair of the Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, had previously spoken of an “unusual event”. The FDP politician said on the “Welt” television channel: “I can’t judge what kind of flight it was, whether the minister was on the road anyway. The whole thing isn’t really correct, we all know that.” She assumes that the minister can explain the case.
The SPD politician Lambrecht traveled from Berlin to Schleswig-Holstein on Wednesday before Easter, accompanied by her son in a government helicopter. There she visited the Battalion Electronic Warfare 911. After that she went on holiday to Sylt with her son.
Irritating slips of the tongue and vacation on Sylt along with election campaign help for an SPD colleague in the middle of the war against Ukraine: Defense Minister Lambrecht has often been attested to a lack of political tact.
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Ministry rejects criticism of Mitflug
After a media report on the incident, the Federal Ministry of Defense had rejected criticism of the son’s traveling with him. The minister had applied for a ride in a government helicopter and “covered one hundred percent of the costs in accordance with the guidelines,” said a ministry spokesman.
Lambrecht, as Minister of Defense, is entitled to make requests for aircraft on standby if the trip is carried out in the performance of an official activity, and determines the persons accompanying them: “Flighting and reimbursement of costs therefore took place in full compliance with the guidelines for the use of aircraft on standby of the Federal Ministry of Defense .”