Deep in the south, CSU leader Markus Söder has sharply attacked the government. Among other things, he made his words clear by also making reference to Wuppertaler SV and SpVgg Erkenschwick.
Every year after carnival, things get crazy. On political Ash Wednesday, the parties prepare particularly piquant speeches. They exchange blows at local or regional gatherings – often below the belt.
In Bavaria, it was CSU leader Markus Söder who went on the attack. He criticized the coalition government at all levels. Be it on the subject of migration, education policy, meat consumption or taxes.
Before beginning his speech, he cheered into the hall: “Passau is the hottest political event of the year”, he was looking forward to “emotions” and his goal was clear: the traffic light government must go.
He therefore also countered a statement by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who claimed that his traffic light government was the best government ever. And here he left his beloved Bavaria for once and picked up on soccer in North Rhine-Westphalia to illustrate his point.
The question remains as to who wrote these two clubs into his speech. Because Söder shouted into the hall in response to Scholz’s statement: “That’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 probably have thought that they would have to be used nationwide to make the case for Söder’s displeasure with the traffic light government.
No other clubs from NRW were used to show what the CSU thinks of the traffic light government. While other parties went in the opposite direction, the level of the 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 to Söder in Bavaria: “I think you deserve better than this political simulant at the head of the country. “