Deep in the south, CSU leader Markus Söder has sharply attacked the government. Among other things, he made his words clear by also using the Wuppertal SV and the SpVgg Erkenschwick.

Every year after Carnival, things get heated. On political Ash Wednesday, the parties prepare particularly spicy speeches. At local or regional gatherings, it comes to blows – often below the belt.

In Bavaria, it was CSU leader Markus Söder, who was fully geared up for attack. At all levels, he criticized the traffic light government. Be it on the subject of migration, education policy, meat consumption or taxes.

Before his speech began, he already cheered in the hall: “Passau is the hottest political date of the year,” he is looking forward to “emotions” and his goal is clear: the traffic light must go.

Therefore, he also countered a statement by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who claimed that his traffic light government is the best government ever. And here he left his beloved Bavaria for a moment and used the example of football in North Rhine-Westphalia to make his point.

The question remains as to who put these two clubs into his speech. In view of Scholz’s statement, Söder shouted into the hall: “It’s as if the president of Wuppertaler SV or Spielvereinigung Erkenschwick thought he was playing in the Champions League!”

On that day, neither WSV, third in the Regionalliga West, nor SpVgg Erkenschwick, seventh in the Oberliga Westfalen, would have thought that they would have to serve as examples of Söder’s displeasure with the coalition government.

Other clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia were not sought to show what the CSU thinks of the traffic light. While other parties went in the opposite direction, the level of political Ash Wednesday became clear when Söder asked.

“What distinguishes my dog Molly from Kevin Kühnert and Ricarda Lang? My dog has completed training.”

The counterattack from the SPD was not long in coming. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil said in Bavaria in the direction of Söder: ‘I think you deserve better than this political simulator at the top of the country.’