Parties – Berlin – Giffey criticizes the CDU election campaign with Merz in Neukölln – politics
Berlin (dpa / bb) – Berlin’s governing mayor and SPD chairwoman Franziska Giffey has sharply criticized the CDU election campaign appearance of the CDU federal chairman Friedrich Merz in Neukölln. “What Friedrich Merz and the Berlin CDU have been doing for weeks is populist and transparent,” said the SPD top candidate on Friday before the CDU event planned for the early evening: “First use the terrible events on New Year’s Eve for your own election campaign, then die want to pigeonhole people in Berlin by their first name and now stage an election campaign in Neukölln of all places.”
The scam of the CDU is known, so Giffey. “First split and agitate, then put it into perspective again. This pattern makes the CDU positions of the right socially acceptable. That is extremely dangerous and has nothing to do with a modern, cosmopolitan and free Berlin.” Giffey continues: “We agree that criminal offenses are to be prosecuted and that the problems in the focal points must be tackled further. But otherwise never showing up, solving no problems and then spitting big tones in the election campaign, that’s not a political approach for Berlin.”
A good two weeks before the repeat election on February 12, Merz and CDU top candidate Kai Wegner want to hold discussions with citizens in Gropiusstadt in Neukölln. One issue is likely to be the New Year’s Eve riots in Berlin with attacks on police officers and firefighters, some of which are taking place in the Neukölln district. Then there was a heated debate about the causes of youth violence, suspects with a migration background and their nationality. In this context, the state CDU asked for the first names of the perpetrators.
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