Sachsen-Anhalt Landtag, Stenografischer Bericht 8/115, pp. 69-71.
Herr Hasselhoff has of course – I’ve just not brought it, be patient a
few seconds.
Herr Hasselhoff promised his voters at the beginning of the legislative
period that he will remain minister-president to the end of the legislative
period. Herr Schulze, you were still more concrete, you also promised the
people something. I have sought it out. It was in August 2025 – cite: “We
push no political games”. Herr Schulze, you said that in September of the
coming year you wanted to be elected by the people and not – I cite:
“pushed through anyhow”. Then, according to reports, came the call from
the chancellor’s office. Herr Merz said, a strong AfD is coming, you need
to do something, the change should come now. And schwuppdiwupp, Herr
Schulze, you were pushed through. You lied in the face of the people. Quite
honestly, what does that have to do with honor and with respect? How to
lie in the face of your own voters and on the basis of a broken promise
present yourself for election?
Herr Schulze, in this same time frame, thus in August, you promised the
people you are politically committed for a work obligation for asylum
applicants. – Wait for once! – We previously moved for that. The CDU
rejected it. Your statement was then in the newspaper to read, we thus
moved again for it. And do you know who again rejected it? Your
CDU, Herr Schulze. Your interior minister said she did not want it.
You thoroughly lied to the people. I do not comprehend how one
can reconcile with his conscience, if one still has one.
Guido Kosmehl (FDP): Oh!
That is the quite big problem. However, now arrives the second
big problem: For those lies work hand in hand with large parts
of the media landscape. They plainly do not exhibit such a double
morality, but they then let out that you want the work obligation
for asylum applicants. They do not at all question that, even though
your own party, your own interior minister spoke out against it.
That would be a double morality that needed to be in the press.
But no, that doesn’t go.
And on that account, there are still people who always fall for these
fairy tales and, on that account, is this debate so important. We need
to open the eyes of the citizens so as to exhibit these lies.
Yet in Sachsen-Anhalt it is insidious that not only promises of content
were broken, but also personal promises. That is for once a whole, new
league. But I know, ja, you learned from the best, from Friedrich Merz.
He entered the election with the goal of maintaining the debt brake, and
directly after the election there was the largest debts package in the
history of this country. Herr Heuer, you always speak of a schwarzen
Null, and then you discover a Corona situation so as to take up
unconstitutional debts. Thus, how can one so disgrace himself here?
It is a gigantic scandal. Yet at the State level this show is ever more
revised. Now we have an election campaign, now you traverse the State
with all the solutions which you are selling. You thereby hush up that it
is you governing here who were able the entire time to have done exactly
what you now communicate in every, single talkshow. But what do you
do as performance in office, Herr Schulze? You make the first queer
promotion program in Sachsen-Anhalt! A State program, a package of
24 measures. I do not grasp which priorities the CDU sets: A queer
program. We have so many other problems in the country, Herr Schulze,
migration, energy, rising prices, and you trouble yourself for the queer
community. It is simply incomprehensible. I know exactly why you do
that. You of course prepare yourself for your new partner, for the Linke.
There, the red carpet well needs to be rolled out.
revised. Now we have an election campaign, now you traverse the State
with all the solutions which you are selling. You thereby hush up that it
is you governing here who were able the entire time to have done exactly
what you now communicate in every, single talkshow. But what do you
do as performance in office, Herr Schulze? You make the first queer
promotion program in Sachsen-Anhalt! A State program, a package of
24 measures. I do not grasp which priorities the CDU sets: A queer
program. We have so many other problems in the country, Herr Schulze,
migration, energy, rising prices, and you trouble yourself for the queer
community. It is simply incomprehensible. I know exactly why you do
that. You of course prepare yourself for your new partner, for the Linke.
There, the red carpet well needs to be rolled out.
Herr Thomas laughs. Ja, there I have caught you a bit, Herr Thomas.
But for once you prepare yourself for your cooperation with the Linke.
Here today, the citation was still not mentioned which I wanted to do.
Luigi Pantisano, the national chairman of the Linke, said: There is no
difference between the CDU and the fascists. If that is your new partner,
then I surely haul out the popcorn. It will be exciting in the coming
months! Inconceivable!
Frau von Angern today has at least distanced herself from the national
chairman of the Linke. That is surely the first step. Super! You stick
together with the Linke. Thus, that is simply just a heap of rubble!
Dear colleagues, in conclusion yet one matter. Certainly many podium
discussions are running. No matter who sits there, whether it be someone
from the delegation or from the government, one here always acts as if
one with the government in that last years has simply not been in charge.
You act in these talkshows, in these podium discussions as if here
someone else governs, likely the AfD, and you were simply not in charge.
It is always the same picture. That is an incredible double morality.
I come to a conclusion in which I freely say: It can be changed, and we
need to change it. The citizens have not deserved this. We want that they
finally again can put trust in political institutions, in which they are
able to set up the AfD-led State government. On that account, we say
quite clearly: Whether the CDU sometime once again correctly turns
aside, or whether they go further with Frau von Angern, with Luigi
Pantisano to the way of the downfall, that is their thing, it’s entirely the
same to me. We concern ourselves with the important problems in this
country, with the political challenges, migration, domestic security and
much more. You play around with your firewall. You do that.
Vice-president Wulf Gallert: Herr Siegmund, that changes
nothing therein that your time is over.
I come to a conclusion. Last sentence, Herr President. We love this
country. We will protect it from leftist your course. On that account:
45 percent plus x on September 6, 2026, here in Sachsen-Anhalt!
Andreas Schumann (CDU): Encore, or what? Honestly!
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