Markus Söder makes a fool of himself on social media

Politician faux pas
Markus Söder makes grammatical errors in a tweet about the school system

Markus Söder embarrassed himself on social media with a grammatical error – and of all things in a comment on school and education policy.

For his quick, sometimes snappy reactions on Twitter, which is now called X, is the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) known. With his reaction to a push by the Greens in Lower Saxony, the politician now made a fool of himself online.

Karl Freller, Vice-President of the Bavarian State Parliament, also CSU, tweeted the “Bild” headline “Advance from Lower Saxony – Greens want to abolish high schools, junior high schools and secondary schools”, and sharply criticized the content of the headline. He compared the idea to the “uniform school of the old GDR”. In his opinion, this project was unspeakable. Söder commented on the Vice President’s criticism and wanted to make it clear: There would be no such change in Bavaria. At least not if he had his way.

Markus Söder criticizes the headline on education policy

But the Prime Minister did not show the greatest confidence in his language. Instead of writing: “It won’t exist IN Bavaria! We guarantee that,” Söder wrote: “It won’t exist in Bavaria! We guarantee that…” and not only disregarded the rules of grammar, but also the capital – and lowercase. Other users of the platform did not leave this blunder uncommented – the reactions were not long in coming.

“Somehow the Bavarian education system isn’t what it used to be,” he tweetede user cynical. Another user commented: “Neither does German spelling and sentence structure!” Direct references to the error were not long in coming. “Doesn’t work out so well when it comes to education,” someone wrote maliciously.

Malice is not long in coming

Not only did his linguistic error bring criticism to the CSU man, but also that the Prime Minister apparently had not read the article beforehand. Because contrary to what the headline suggests, the text is only about a push by the Green Youth in Lower Saxony, which calls on the red-green state government to create a uniform school system for everyone. Not an initiative by the state government itself.

Source: Twitter