It is a peculiar political art form: once a year the parties in Lower Bavaria meet to loudly criticize each other. On the so-called political Ash Wednesday, thrashing is a tradition – which doesn’t mean that everything is allowed: the judiciary is still dealing with statements that were made on the AfD stage last year. Things shouldn’t be squeamish this year either.
A team of reporters from the SZ accompanies the speeches by Markus Söder (CSU), Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), new party founder Sahra Wagenknecht and other political celebrities in the live blog: