The CSU also supported the demonstration against the AfD on Sunday in Munich. At the same time, Munich’s CSU leader, Bavarian Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich, criticized the organizers – especially the climate movement Fridays for Future. More than 200 organizations and groups are calling for the demonstration against the AfD. It starts on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Siegestor.
Eisenreich announces that he will attend the demo personally. In a statement to the SZ, he emphasized “that the CSU clearly and resolutely fights every form of right-wing extremism.” He welcomes the fact that so many are “taking to the streets for our democratic values.” But he wonders “why many of the organizers were so quiet” when the focus in recent months was “to show solidarity with the Jews in our country.”
At the same time, Eisenreich criticizes the motto of the demonstration: “Together against the right.” He considers this “wrong in its calculated vagueness.” He is in favor of taking a clear position: “Against right-wing extremism, inside and outside the AfD. Against domestic and imported anti-Semitism.” However, he is against “opening up a space through linguistic imprecision in which conservative positions can be defamed as ‘right-wing’.” This indirectly strengthens the AfD.
While, according to Eisenreich, he sees a “democratic consensus” in the fight against enemies of democracy, this does not exist when it comes to immigration and refugee policy. He hopes that the speakers at the demonstration will “resist the temptation to use the consensus in the fight against right-wing extremism to demand a left-wing immigration and refugee policy.”
Eisenreich explicitly criticizes the Fridays for Future climate movement. He asked himself whether she was “a legitimate organizer of such a demonstration against extremism”. The Munich CSU leader justifies his stance by saying that the German branch of the movement only “half-heartedly” distanced itself from Greta Thunberg’s “unspeakable statements” about Israel.
Thunberg founded the global movement with school strikes in Stockholm, and recently she came under fire for her demands on the Middle East conflict, especially in Germany. Eisenreich: “As long as Fridays for Future Germany does not clearly and clearly distance itself from the anti-Semitic ideas of Greta Thunberg, I have a problem with this organization acting as a socio-political conscience.”