German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/147, pp. 18686-18687.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Never before has a government driven our country up against the wall like this one – which today is again not here. The citizens suffer under exploding prices for energy and foodstuffs, as well as under a housing emergency, a heating law, kaputten bridges and roads, decaying schools. Industry flees out of the country, and millions of asylum seekers of foreign culture flow in unhindered. What a disaster! What a frightful balance, ladies and gentlemen!
Germany shakes under the outcry of despairing farmers, truckers, tradesmen, restaurant owners. The emergency is great. The trust is gone; all surveys shows this. For example, Saxony: There, the SPD has shrunk to seven percent,
Stephan
Brander (AfD): Still too much!
perhaps does not come again into the parliament, FDP and Greens also not.
Sven
Lehmann (Greens): Do not celebrate too early!
And the AfD? It is well at 35 percent. We are presently five times as strong as the Chancellor’s party. So goes democracy, ladies and gentlemen! The voters punish you! The voters punish you with a primal force unique in the history of the Federal Republic. Panic spreads. One can virtually smell your fear!
Stephan Brander (AfD): Ja! It stinks! From the old parties’ fear!
And what do you do about it? The higher the AfD’s polling numbers, the more maliciously you defame our party. That can again be certainly seen in this debate. You shrink from simply nothing. The level sinks to the unheard of.
Maya Wallenstein (SPD): It’s funny that you say that!
Stephan
Brander (AfD): Strack-Rheinmetall!
Nothing better occurs to the FDP’s lead candidate for the European election. She designated the AfD as a dirty heap of filth,
Rasha Nasr
(SPD): She’s right, there!
and the AfD’s over 10 million voters as dirty blow-flies – I cite: “The greater the heap of filth,” – thus the FDP lead candidate – “the more so flies sit thereon”. Pfui Teufel!
Stephan
Brander (AfD): Nauseating!
When the voters withdraw the power from you, then they are insulted as “blow-flies”. That is your understanding of democracy.
Alice Weidel (AfD): An affront to the voters!
Yet, for this arrogance, the voters will punish you at the ballot box!
At the same time, you fundamentally falsify our political demands. An example: We demand, as ever, the return or remigration of all migrants who according to law and statute have no claim to protection.
Konstantin Kuhle (FDP): You learned that in Potsdam, or?
It has to do with around 300,000 finally rejected asylum applicants and the foreigners who only temporarily have benefit of protection as civil war refugees.
Stephan Brander (AfD): Quite right!
In Syria, the war is over!
Rasha Nasr (SPD): The war is not over!
Thus, 600,000 Syrians need to return. Even Denmark, governed by Social Democrats, sends the Syrians home. That is the remigration which we demand. This remigration is not against law and constitution. It is the enforcement of law and constitution! We are the defenders of the state of law, and you are its opponents!
You work here against us with the most malicious means. It has again been heard here today: Politicians from the FDP and Union falsify our demands, particularly in regards the theme of remigration. And in the ARD’s “Tagesschau” was heard this week that under the term “remigration” the AfD understands the forced expulsion to the point of mass deportation of millions of people –
Britta
Haßelmann (Greens): That is so!
thus your speeches, thus the ARD and ZDF. What an insidious campaign of politicians and journalists of the run-down left-green class! Yet, the citizens see through you! They no longer believe your nonsense! We experience the end of an epoch. We experience now here the end of the left-green dominance in Germany, ladies and gentlemen.
Against this decline, Habeck, Kühnert & Co. defend
themselves with all means. Thus even small, private debate clubs will be
inflated into secret meetings dangerous to public safety; just as recently in
Potsdam, a roundtable of businessmen, freelancers, who routinely meet for an
exchange of ideas. This roundtable invited guests from the Politik, four from the CDU,
Stephan Brander (AfD): Hear, hear!
four from the AfD and two from the WerteUnion. What any speaker said or did not say cannot be associated with the CDU or the AfD. How desperate need one be to invent out of this a campaign against the AfD, as you here today are attempting?
Ladies and gentlemen, the times in which such political illusionists had all the power are over. The wind turns. For Germany, something new comes. For Germany comes the AfD – whether you want it or not.
Rasha Nasr (SPD): Never again!
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