German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/83, pp. 9927-9929.
Frau President. Herr Chancellor. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
This government declaration was the recessional of one who has failed. Herr Merz, your own people already discuss your discharge, yet they sing songs of praise to themselves.
For the facts: The labor market topples. The German economy has lost a half million jobs in the first quarter vis-à-vis the previous year. Every 20 minutes a business falls victim to the insolvency tsunami. The number of industrial orders collapses twice as much as expected. The industrial core is melting. High taxes and energy costs, bureaucracy and a planned economy strangle the basis of our business while the state apparat ever further grows. Industry’s exodus to foreign countries borders on mass flight.
With the businesses and the jobs go the people. In your first year in office, so many Germans citizens have emigrated as never before.
Mirze Edis (Linke): On account of the AfD!
It is the young, it is the well educated who go because in their own country they no longer see a future.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): You were first to go! To Switzerland!
The mass immigration into our sozial system from the third world, on the other hand, continues unabated. A six-figure number of illegals immigrates under the pretense of asylum, and with that an additional large city through the backdoor of family reunification. In regards deportations, your balance is still more catastrophic than that of the Ampel.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Such nonsense!
Does thus appear a migration change? Quite the contrary. You still manifest the failed mass immigration in which you discard the German citizenship to these illegal migrants. The trashing of the German passport in your first year in government has reached a new record. Who does not live in a sealed-off bubble, for her the increase of violent, sexual, brutal crime is no cold statistic, but a daily accompaniment in the form of one’s own fear and the concern for our children. At the train station in Nürnberg, hometown of CSU chairman Marcus Söder, migrant gangs plied a German female minor with drugs so to abuse her as a sex slave. I ask you: How many Nürnbergs are there in Germany? And what have you all – yes, all here – by mass immigration, brutality and moral decline made of our country?
Do not take the Germans for naïve.
Harald Ebner (Greens); Eijeijei!
They very well register how you treat them. They hear exactly when the Sozial Minister and SPD chairman Bärbel Bas makes us contemptible as a “brown unit” [Einheitsbraun]. Who thus speaks, hates her own and herself and has no business in government.
Your contempt for the Germans is also found in the Sozialpolitik’s expression. The German tax- and contribution payers shall pay higher pension contributions and work longer. They shall accept higher rising sozial contributions and massive benefits cuts and, in a case of maintained care, commit their entire wealth and their own homes for which they long saved. But they shall come up with the life-long, full provision for millions of third world boarders.
Dagmar Schmidt (SPD-Wetzler): That is a lie!
Siemtje Möller (SPD): That is simply fake news!
One need not know more of this Federal government!
For migration costs,
Jürgen Cosse SPD): Have you another theme?
development aid, energy transition, climate protection madness, you yearly squander three-figure billion sums. There is no talk of savings and cuts. The failed energy transition has already squandered 500 billion euros and will still cost ten times that, thus over 5 trillion euros. You have wantonly and intentionally destroyed the energy infrastructure of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Billions upon billions of euros you send to the Ukraine and thereby finance the prolongation of a war which long since ought to have been ended.
Florian Müller (CDU/CSU): Ask Putin!
Tilman Kuban (CDU/CSU): You get along with Putin!
To this day, you demand no accounting from Kiev over the explosion of the Nordstream pipeline. Vital infrastructure for our economy was thereby destroyed, and a massive harm was inflicted. Instead, you wantonly seek the confrontation with Russia, an atomic power, so as to distract from your own failures. You speak of war, you always only speak of war and want to support this war and draw Germany into this war. In that regard, peace is exactly what this continent needs – and the Ukraine also. Let us finally speak of peace instead of war!
And to the truth also belongs: No, the Ukraine may never become a member of the European Union and of NATO. Period, stop, basta!
Wilfried Oellers (CDU/CSU): You read what Putin wrote for you!
Record debts, higher taxes and duties, de-industrialization, danger of war, migrant violence, hate crimes against Germans: The citizens have no more to expect from this Federal government and from you.
– Hit hounds howl. –
That is not only your failure, Herr Merz, but that of your entire government. For that, you bear the responsibility, you have submitted yourself, for better or for worse, to the leftist SPD, hostile to Germany and to performance. With such personnel, a political change is not done.
Wilfried Oellers (CDU/CSU): With your kind, also not!
Therefore, urgent reforms now need be initiated.
We need to immediately declare the so-called climate crisis and the energy transition to be at an end. Even the world climate council has meanwhile cashed in its horror scenarios. Thus why wait? We need to set aside the CO2 duty, lower the energy taxes, re-enter the nuclear power, completely abolish the combustion engine verbot and the heating diktat. What we need is market economy and favorable energy, not a Verbotspolitik.
Ralf Stegner (SPD): Your understanding, you’ve completely abolished!
The state citizenship law needs be reformed and the naturalization hurdles need to be drastically raised. The sozial state migration magnets need to be shut off. Illegals migrants need to be rejected without exception at our borders. Criminals and illegals need to be turned back.
– You should for once make Politik for our country, dear SPD. You are already at 11 or 12 percent. Or where are you now? –
If one has actually only been with the Antifa, then you can also make no reasonable Politik. This we of course see in the Vice-chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil: Learned nothing, never worked, only been with the Antifa, cannot deal with numbers. And thus our country is precisely there where it certainly is.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Oh Mann, Mann, Mann!
Dirk Weise (SPD): Here comes the elite movement, here forward!
You thus have two options, Herr Merz. You can loosen the blockade by which you end the leftist coalition with the SPD and seek new, constructive majorities,
Alexander Hoffmann (CDU/CSU): Here, I laugh myself kaputt!
or you can continue to wait and do nothing – which is to be expected – until the citizens compel new elections for an AfD reform government. First in the States, then in the Bund.
We are ready to overtake responsibility, because Germany has deserved,
Ralf Stegner (SPD): Germany has deserved democracy!
because we Germans have deserved to be well governed.
I am grateful.
Ralf Stegner (SPD): Such a farce!
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Big propaganda show! That, you likely learned in Moscow!
Ja, schmerzlich, nicht wahr? Das tut weh!
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