Bavarian Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/91,
pp. 12426-12428.
Frau President. Esteemed colleagues.
Herr Söder, as to your mud-slinging: I am neither a postman
nor a string-puller. In contrast to you, I respect the opinion of free
citizens.
On that account, I certainly want to say thank you to the
many helpers in healthcare, in the schools and in the families. They are the
defenders of our people, not the power elites and the politicians.
Today we deliberate in the Bavarian Landtag on the new
Corona decree for which the Bavarian ministers council unanimously decided
yesterday and announced in the surroundings of a press conference. Owing to the
wide-ranging restrictions for the citizens, an open-ended debate in the Landtag
with the participation of the people’s elected representatives would have been
essential. Instead we however see, dear citizens, the Minister-president’s 18th
government declaration which is nothing other than an advertisement for Markus Söder
with the friendly support of the Bavarian State broadcasting.
For a year and a half, this Minister-president governs with
emergency decrees and makes the Bavarian Landtag into Bavaria’s biggest little
theatre. As the AfD delegation’s chairman, I have obtained a deep insight into
the political decision-making process. As a citizen of this State, I had
expected the elected members of the parties to be included in the making of
decisions. Instead, the Minister-president rules past the parliament and
thereby disregards the parliamentary customs – quite according to his model,
the yet Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. And she continually has made the
essential decisions unilaterally and without appropriate participation of the
Bundestag. Minister-president Söder has even recently praised this almost
dictatorial governing style and copied it for Bavaria. Ladies and gentlemen, since
the Corona situation at the latest, parliamentary government finds itself in a
very serious crisis. This crisis was unleashed not by the critics of the Corona
restrictions but by the State government under Söder. He repeatedly abuses the
Bavarian Landtag as a stage for the announcement of the State government’s decisions
and degrades to supernumeraries the large portion of the elected members.
Minister-president Söder shows himself to be not only un-teachable
in relations with the parliament but also in connection with the challenges
owing to the Corona virus. He grandiosely designates the announced new
infection defense decree as a new chapter in the Corona policy. Restrictive of
the basic rights, the Corona preventive measures were to be an expression of a new balance of security and self-responsibility.
In fact however, right honorable ladies and gentlemen, by means of the
introduction of the 3-G rule, designated as the centerpiece, the thumb screws
were further tightened for those not vaccinated; in Bavaria, that is still 40% –
40%! At the same time, you increase the direct pressure on the young people to
let themselves be vaccinated. Since from October 1, Corona tests will no more
be offered without cost. By means of an expensive PCR test, a disco visit
becomes an unaffordable luxury. Herr Söder, you rob the joy of life from an
entire generation. Yet let us state what the fact is: 3-G is nothing other than
a covert forced vaccination, since what is left to the citizen who can fulfill
no test? What does the old-age impoverished pensioner do who needs now take
care to make ends meet? It is the perfect right of these people to say: Nein, I do not want to let myself be
vaccinated.
Here it is unethical, improper, indeed it is completely
unacceptable to continue to exercise pressure on these free people. That has
nothing to do with the commended self-responsibility; but that is state
repression in its most extreme form. You, Herr Söder, play off the vaccinated
against the non-vaccinated. You thereby divide our society and you even
designate it as a new form of freedom. Here, more scorn and meanness there is
not.
In this regard, the Economy Minister and Deputy Minister-president
Hubert Aiwanger thereby plays a quite shabby role. He is the man with two
faces, the Janus head in the Söder government. At the cabinet table, he votes
to the detriment of the vaccinated, at the reserved table he solicits the votes
of the non-vaccinated for the Frei Wähler. The voters see through this game of
the bloc party system and do not let themselves be sold for dumb. The citizens know
that Aiwanger is only there so as to keep the oppositional votes in the bloc
party system.
Herr Aiwanger, if you take freedom seriously, then finally do
us a favor and quit this government of serfdom [Unfreiheit] and encroachment! End this unworthy show for Bavaria!
The new decree also foresees the introduction of a so-called
hospital signal light. You thereby overtake a requisition which we of the AfD
had from the beginning demanded as an indicator of the loading of the
healthcare system. But what exactly happens to us citizens when the light is
yellow or red? No one knows exactly what will then happen and you keep it vague.
Ladies and gentlemen, who should actually peer into all of
these regulations? Such monstrous legal decrees are the expression of a policy
hostile to freedom which no one understands.
In this connection, you also ever again bring into play the
children. As a mama of four children, I can only say to you: It is shown, and
it is a scientific consensus, that children are no vectors of infection, and an
illness of children and youth runs exceedingly mild. Herr Söder, we of the AfD
stand consistently on the side of the families. On that account, I demand of
you here in the sovereign house: Hands off our children!
We of the AfD do not want that our children be required or be
forced to vaccinate. We also do not want that here children be exposed to
unnecessary health risks and that children need wear a mask at school, even
though they will be continually tested. That is after all completely insane! We
of the AfD want an authentic freedom to decide and we stand for
proportionality. We are the guarantor of self-responsibility and thereby the
only remaining advocate of an authentic freedom in this country.
We want no Söder’sche
freedom, but we demand the end of these nonsensical and unrealistic preventive
measures. Herr Söder, I am greatly concerned for Bavaria. Under your
government, we Bavarians simply want our freedom back.
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