Sayings like: “Live and let live in Bavaria instead of Berlin’s paternalism and planned economy” are often collected from the verbal bullying on political Ash Wednesday. But wait a minute, this slogan is the official title of an application in the state parliament on Thursday – a debate on it is scheduled by the CSU.
Faction leader Thomas Kreuzer starts ranting, he sees “government supervision” and “green dirigisme” all-encompassing at work: speed limits, combustion engines, oil and gas heating, nuclear power, single-family homes. But 14-year-olds should decide whether they are “man today, woman tomorrow, different the day after tomorrow” – a “catastrophe”. And now advertising for chocolate should also be banned, but there is “smoking weed until the doctor comes”.
Florian Streibl (Free Voters) seriously supports him with the thesis that the federal government is a worse plague than a pandemic, war and inflation. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) looks like an orphan with his traffic light bashing, which was not exactly shy.
The election campaign has finally arrived in the state parliament. And the tone is set – as perpetual Ash Wednesday. If it stays that way until October, then cheers, meal! Ruth Müller (SPD), the new general secretary of her party, sees it as an “insult to parliamentarism” that the state parliament has to deal with such a beer tent speech. She attests to the CSU’s “persecution mania” – where, please, is there a planned economy? Although: “Sometimes it’s not wrong to have a plan.” The state government has none, for example in schools, energy or housing.
Thomas Gehring (Greens) misses state politics in Kreuzer’s speech, the CSU has made itself “comfortable” in the opposition to Berlin instead of governing. Thanks to the traffic light, however, one “got through the winter damn well”. Martin Hagen (FDP) certifies that the CSU is a “Punch and Punch show”, and rebukes Kreuzer’s “Kalauer” at the expense of minorities. And anyone who has forbidden Corona to read a book alone in the park cannot judge about patronage. Ingo Hahn (AfD) says that the CSU itself has long been “part of the left-green cartel”. Anyone who “carries a remnant of patriotism within them” should reflect on conservative roots.
Round two of the CSU comes, in which Kerstin Schreyer introduces the term “ban lust” and Michaela Kaniber introduces eco-socialism, actually a popular word for the AfD. And Fabian Mehring (FW) even smells a “political system competition”. Very busy this morning: the President of the State Parliament. Ilse Aigner has to keep reminding “all sides” to keep the room quiet.