German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/154, pp. 19757-19758.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Herr Fechner, that was way past the themes on which you have spoken here. Yet you have made a gift to us of the seven minutes – a very good thing! The people outside there nevertheless need to know: It is all the same what you fill out in your order of business, you in any case do not restrain yourself when it is at the expense of the AfD. Therefore: Considerable hypocrisy, I need say to you!
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Why then do you continually lose? Why do you continually lose before the Constitutional Court?
As to the matter itself, – you have regrettably missed the theme; to the back of the class, Herr Fechner! – it is about old parties, crony business, nepotism, family gangs. We have already been acquainted in this legislative period with the Graichen clan in a Green ministry. Suddenly, a scandal in the FDP Transportation Ministry: There, a section leader for hydrogen has provided his relations and acquaintances with millions;
Tina
Rudolph (SPD): Greetings to Azerbaijian!
hence, a quick stop of hydrogen projects at the Transportation Ministry.
All of this is however no exception, ladies and gentlemen. We have the Porsche-mails, of which Herr Wissing apparently also has not heard. We have Herr Lindner and the BB Bank. All of which is very dubious. We have the Kahrs connections through which colleague Kahrs has supplied his Sozikumpel in Hamburg. We do not exactly know what’s with the Benko clan and the Federal government. We have Löbel, Tandler, Sauter, Nüsslein, CDU and CSU captains
Ruppert
Stüwe (SPD): Yet you are the delegation with the most criminals!
all up to the collar in a corruption and donations swamp.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): So, now on the code of conduct! On the theme!
And you present yourself here in all seriousness and act as if you want to change anything for the better!
Ladies and gentlemen out there, you must know, regardless whether mask deals, Habeck clans, Benko, Gabriel, Lindner, Tandler, Löbel, or how they all are called, thus regardless whether SPD, FDP, Greens, CDU or CSU,
Tina
Rudolph (SPD): Nicely excluding your own corruption scandals!
all of you – and this I say ever again from here – have looted the state, without limit. You know no boundaries so as to fill your pockets at the expense of the taxpayers out there. Your daily allowances should be enough. You have not been appointed for lobbying. Despite this, you do not trouble yourselves with what is going through the people’s minds out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Frauke
Heiligenstadt (SPD): That is unparliamentary!
Apropos lobby contacts: Is Frau Agnes Strack-Rheinmetall here?
Ingo Bodtke
(FDP): That is an impudence!
She likely continues to lobby.
You cannot and do not want to halt the lobbying because all of you profit therefrom. Thus the lobby register law is nothing but a dead bird.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): “Dead bird”! There you have long reflected!
It contains no legislative, no executive footprint, as we want, so can be verified: Where has someone somehow exercised an influence on legislation? That, all of you do not want. Representatives of interests can decline the statements on their financing. Lobbyists need not reveal for which projects and statutory purposes they are working. There are so many exceptions that the exceptions are the rule, ladies and gentlemen.
Today, it is only about minimal alterations. You thereby want to trim that you simply slept through the original legislative process.
Anke
Henning (SPD): How can one talk so much rubbish?
You have headlong brought into this parliament a few hours before the final vote motions to amend which you yourselves do not understand. We therefore here today need to speak in plenary session on redactive alterations.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): That is
just idiocy! Dumb thing! We do nothing in the lobby register! Nothing is
changed in the lobby register!
We could have spared ourselves all of this. Had you done reasonable legislative work, as we will do it when we shortly are in the government, we would have been able to completely spare ourselves this debate point.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): You certainly have not read it, Herr Brandner! You do not grasp the simplest points!
Tina Rudolph (SPD): We can spare
ourselves this entire democracy if you are in the government!
You have once again exposed yourselves. It is good that this could again be expressed here; I know not how long that still goes.
Many thanks.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Ja, tschüs!
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