Jörg Urban, June 5, 2023, Leftist Violence in Saxony

AfD Kompakt, June 5, 2023.

We see also an urgent need for a special sitting of the Interior Committee. When for many days there, stones are thrown at police, autos are set afire and police precincts are attacked, that is a situation similar to civil war.

It makes matter more difficult that the Greens with Jürgen Kasek have taken a key role in regards the militant protests. A governing party has the duty to prevent violence. Instead, the Greens have ever again verbally legitimated the Anitfa’s violence. Minister-president Michael Kretschmer thus sits in a boat with quasi Antifa powers. In that regard, he has an extremism problem in his own government.

Especially his Green Justice Minister Katja Meier enlists as a political arm of the Antifa. Just a few years ago, she herself demonstrated side by side with leftist extremists. To this day, she has not credibly distanced herself from the protagonists of leftist violence.

Kretschmer’s government coddles leftist extremists in regards whom the Federal Criminal Office sees parallels with the RAF. CDU Interior Minister Armin Schuster now in retrospect announces himself for implementing a concept against leftist extremism. The government of Saxony must allow the question why already for years such a concept was not drawn up.

 

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Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing, May 25, 2023, Low Wages and Small Business

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/106, p. 12834.

Right honorable Frau President. Dear colleagues. Honored citizens.

We have quite often heard it today: Employees, who have the good fortune to be paid according to scale in a business with a works council at its disposal and where there is a an employee representation worthy of the name, have not only higher incomes but in general also essentially better working conditions. Wage dumping and precarious work conditions are found especially where there is simply no representation of interests which can strengthen employee rights, So far, so good.

Yes, we of the AfD wish that as many employees as possible profit from the advantages of having a voice, and to that also plainly belong binding wage contracts. Higher wages – that is long since no more a luxury but a sheer necessity. In a country where so many citizens can no more afford daily living, in which the state squeezes the citizens with so many taxes and contributions that for many it would be more profitable to stay home with a citizen’s wage [Bürgergeld],

            Annika Klose (SPD): Ach, rubbish!

it is quite especially important that work be appropriately respected; that is to say, honored.

For too long was our country a low wage country. What we now complain of as old age poverty, and will still suffer in the future, is also the result of an abusive form of a precarious low wage sector. A third of those employed full-time today will receive a pension of not even 1,200 euros, but less – for 45 years full-time, as is well known. That is a scandal.

Here, good wage scale parameters [tarifliche Rahmenbedingungen] help and therefore we of the AfD are also for the promotion of these.

Yet what surely does not work is to write your ideal into a motion and then to believe it works out in the implementation. That is wishful thinking. And what happens when a socialist dream meets reality can you certainly experience in the heating transition debacle of your green comrades.

For us in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern soon threatens the care collapse – because ambulatory care service was recently placed under the wage contracts law and soon its employees can simply no longer perform. That is the reason why the first Federal states again already say goodbye to their own wage contracts laws – must say goodbye. That means: Please, some more honesty! And so it appears that we find ourselves in a crisis, and that we have many small businesses which only with difficulty can keep themselves above water. Those employed and the businesses would thereby be better served if their work was not daily hindered.

A Left party which gets chummy in the climate chaos so to win recruits, and on its website brags

            Pascal Meiser (Linke): Remain with the motion! Or have you again not read it?

of going into the street with the youth climate movement, is part of the problem and not the solution. Here then the pious wish for a collective agreement is of no additional help.

Many thanks.

            Pascal Meiser (Linke): You’ve sniffed too much adhesive!

 

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Joachim Wundrak, May 10, 2023, Bundeswehr in Mali

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/102, p. 12306.

Right honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.

Already for more than a year, we of the AfD delegation clearly named the failure of the Bundeswehr’s mission in Mali and demanded the orderly withdrawal of our soldiers. I may refrain from citing to you and myself the reaction at that time from the ranks of the self-declared middle of this house. On the other hand, all European contributors of troops meanwhile have consequently converted these failures into the decision for a departure. And the large African contributors of troops have already left MINUSMA. The departure of the French, British, Swedish, Dutch, Canadians and others leaves behind on the ground considerable capability gaps which cannot be closed. The risks for our contingent thereby increase drastically.

The acknowledgment of the failures of the mission in Mali has for weeks permeated all delegations of this parliament. That is to be welcomed.

I wish to emphasize that here it is a question of a political, strategic failure for which the Bundeswehr soldiers assigned to Mali may not be reproached. These failures derive from the entire Western policy in the Sahel and especially that of the former colonial power France. Nevertheless, instead of immediately applying the logical consequence of this acknowledgment, namely to start the forthwith departure of our troops from Mali, the Federal government in the past year has further increased the size of the contingent and prepared additional capabilities for MINUSMA. On the other hand, the task fulfillment of the German MINUSMA contribution, measured by the mandate, has further receded. The relation with the Mali government has further worsened. The ruling military junta under the putschist Assimi Goita, who has named himself interim president of Mali, has meanwhile taken a clear geopolitical position on the side of Russia. The general security situation has in any case thereby worsened. Onto one side falls the pressure of the Islamist terrorists following the departure of the French and the halt proceeding therefrom of Operation Barkhane and Taskforce Takuba. On the other side, the Russian Wagner mercenary troops meanwhile with brutal means overtake the fight on the side of the Mali army and drive the people of Northern Mali into the hands of the Islamists.

In this increasingly uncontrollable and dangerous situation, the government now puts before us this singular motion which speaks of a continued task fulfillment with a simultaneous melting away of capability contributions. The previously expounded reason for the delayed departure was to make available helicopters for the rescue chain and other capabilities until the spring of 2024 for coverage of the planned elections in Mali. In the motion put forward by the Federal government, these elections as a basis for the mandate are only very vaguely mentioned; for good reason. Since no one any longer seriously believes in elections in Mali next spring.

The presented motion nevertheless leaves open when in fact begins the contingent’s transfer back and when the task fulfillment shall be discontinued. In the worst case, this means maintaining the presence of the German participation in MINUSMA until May 2024 and just then to begin the transfer back of the forces.

For this, an additional half billion euros shall be thrown after the previous costs of the Mali mission of approximately four billion euros, without being able to expect an added value or sustainable uses from this mission.

Consequently, we reject the motion put forward by the Federal government for a continuation of the Bundeswehr's participation in MINUSMA and demand the immediate beginning of a rapid, controlled departure of all German forces from Mali.

I am grateful.

 

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