For the second summer, the state parliament has been driving its democracy truck to Bavaria’s cities to talk to people. A format somewhere between political education, closeness to the people and lightning rod. What does the project bring?
“Hello, Mrs. Aiwanger,” says the young man in the white T-shirt to Ilse Aigner when he gets the microphone on Max-Josefs-Platz in Rosenheim. laughter in the audience. “Everything is fine,” reassured the President of the Landtag. She notices that it wasn’t malice, but a tangle caused by nervousness, since you don’t get the chance to have a conversation like this every day. The question that the husband puts to the CSU politician is about Hubert Aiwanger, the Economics Minister from the Free Voters: How does she feel about the fact that “populism” is already finding its way into the state government, see Aiwanger’s controversial speech at the Erdinger Heizgesetz Demo? Aigner replies that she did not think one of the statements made by the coalition partner was “right”, thereby publicly positioning herself. However, she warns against “discrediting everything that is conservative as right-wing”. The vast majority in Erding wanted to articulate concerns about their own home. And on we go with the lively question and answer session.