German
Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/216, pp. 27323-27324.
Frau
President. Esteemed colleagues.
We are
speaking in this current affairs hour of the loss of trust in democratic
institutions and how that is to be counteracted. The colleagues preceding me
have flourished big speeches; the lobby register shall finally come. For
tracking how and where lobbyists attempt to acquire influence in the preparation
of particular laws, it is in fact not suited; yet you think what should be,
that we already somehow have, that is already suitable. Esteemed colleagues, do
you really believe that? I do not.
What do you
believe the people think of when listening to Health Minister Spahn who says: “Stay
home! Corona is dangerous. No social fraternizing!”, and must read that this
particular health minister on the same evening has met with businessmen for
dinner, the masks worn only for memorial photographs, and that the participants
had been required to pay 9,999 euros – as we have heard; since at 10,000, the
names must be published.
Otto Fricke (FDP): No! Over 10,000, Frau colleague! One should at least know that!
A lucrative
evening for the Health Minister – a quite dreary hour for the credibility of
politics!
And what does
the citizen think when he hears the name of Andreas Scheuer? Toll disaster, an
endless, embarrassing list of failures, a devastating critique from the Federal
Audit Authority and a subsequently imposed security classification so that the
dirty business does not come to the light of day. The Transportation Minister’s
failures will cost the taxpayer over half a billion euros – of lost trust, we
must here simply not begin to speak.
And what does
the citizen think of when he hears the name of Philipp Amthor? Not of 30, but
how share options and director posts are received as a reward for favors…Further:
Georg Nüsslein, assistant chairman of the CDU/CSU Bundestag delegation, who
shall have cooperated in the illegal sale of masks; Axel Fisher, CDU Bundestag
member, accused of corruption; Nikolas Löbel, CDU Bundestag member, the third
of the bunch.
Götz Frömming (AfD): An entire nest!
How much
trust is lost by students who themselves write their doctoral work and then
notice that it is otherwise; who see that plagiarism by our Family Minister
Giffey simply has no effects, other than she “voluntarily” renounced her
doctorate title – how noble of her!
Yet all of
that can still be topped! Ursula von der Leyen, our former Defense Minister,
for her consultants affair, in regards which all cell phone data has been
deleted – so that nothing can be tracked – has not been punished, no, she has
been rewarded with the position of President of the European Commission – an office
for which she has not even stood for election. Yet Frau von der Leyen is at least
consistent and has in her first crisis also completely failed –
congratulations.
And you ask in all seriousness how so the citizens no more trust and believe you! And you believe you may settle that with a register? How shall the citizens trust politicians who only look after their own advantage,
Helin Evrim Sommer (Linke): What is it then with Frau Weidel?
who for their failures need fear no consequences? Earlier, ministers had apologized and had taken their leave – today, Pattex [super glue] politicians lack the stature for a resignation.
Bitta Haßelmann (Greens): Frau Weidel! How about her party contributions affair?
How shall the
citizens trust politicians who denigrate them when they criticize the present
policy, who call them “Dunkeldeutsche”,
“Pack” [rabble], and “Idioten”? How shall the citizens trust
politicians who drive laws at a pig’s trot through the Bundestag, without time
for consultation; laws which are stuck in other laws like spyware because you
are afraid of public debate; who let Huawei sponsor political party days and
naturally cannot subsequently decide on the exclusion of this concern from the
construction of networks;
Götz Frömming (AfD): Embarassing!
whose laws are routinely annulled by the Federal Constitutional Court because they are unconstitutional;
Helin Evrim Sommer (Linke): What do you do? Party contributions! If one sits in a glass house, one should not throw stones!
who regard the basic rights to be privileges which can be distributed at discretion;
Matthias Bartke (SPD): Who then has written this speech?
who no more
come to the most important decisions of the Corona policy here in the
Bundestag, but in the Chancellor’s Office; who make an admirer of Mao an
important counselor to the government in the Corona crisis; and who shortly
before the elections, sic the politically instrumentalized Constitution Defense
on the largest opposition party – because you are afraid for your positions and
power – and who thereby still fail at court and today have yourselves to blame
to the bone, ladies and gentlemen.
Nein, esteemed colleagues, you do not thus create
trust, thus the people are lost. And you still do not even notice that. Germany
deserves something better than you and your politics; no register will change
anything of that. Election Day is payday! One thing I promise you: You do not
belittle us of the AfD, and not with a marionette by the name of Haldenwang.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
