Tino Chrupalla, April 24, 2022, Elections in France and Hungary

AfD Kompakt, April 24, 2022.

In the name of the Alternative für Deutschland, I congratulate our partner Marine Le Pen on her strong result in the presidential election in France. She was able to considerably increase her share of the vote in comparison with 2017. And if, according to the first projections, it did not suffice this time for an election victory: The course alteration in the Europe has begun. And we are a part of this change!

The political spectrum has widened, and no longer lets itself be constricted. Following the parliamentary election in Hungary, the presidential election in France was the second direction election in Europe in 2022. The trend is clearly positive, Viktor Orban and Marine Le Pen arouse enormous agreement in their countries.

In regards the next Landtag elections, the Alternative für Deutschland needs to follow up and assert itself with good results in the parliaments. Together we will transform the continent of Europe and lead to a more secure future!

 

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Tino Chrupalla, April 21, 2022, Votez Marine!

AfD Kompakt, April 21, 2022. 

It is not only bad form but a break with international custom when the Chancellor in the French media calls for the election of one of the determined presidential candidates. Olaf Scholz is not allowed to act like a party politician, but must like a statesman preserve neutrality.

It is somewhat different when I as chief of a party turn to the French and say: If the identity of France and the social peace of your homeland is in your heart, you must elect Marine Le Pen. Votez Marine!

 

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Thomas Dietz, April 7, 2022, Nursing Bonus

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/28, pp. 2470-2471.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Today we finally speak of the nursing bonus which now however many nursing staff unfortunately need perceive as an insult. The nursing bonus comes of course precisely at that point in time at which thousands of employees in hospitals, in the nursing area, are working in an occupational condition of vacancy. Vacant because the state brutally intervenes in the right of self-determination of these workers.

Just now thousands of non-vaccinated co-workers must be reported by their employers to health officials. Here it is irrelevant whether these people in past years have performed self-sacrificing action for patients and for that were recently applauded from the gallery. The personal decision to not let themselves be vaccinated has plainly not been made by many of these with a guarantee. Nevertheless, they often witness among the patients that the risks and uses of these injections are in striking disparity.  

Yet now to the nursing bonus, which is about giving back something to people for a performance which they put forward whole-heartedly and with great energy. What requires months to formulate reads like a math exam calculation. I may go briefly into the details.

550 euros shall be alloted to co-workers who work crucially in the direct nursing and attendance of those requiring care. All additional co-workers who are active at the facility receive only 370 euros. This can be, for example, employees in administration, the kitchen or garden and groundskeeping, if they – verbatim – “have been active at least 25 percent of their work time, daily-structured, active attending or caring, in common with those requiring care.”

I ask myself: Who thinks up such numbers? How does the facility administration determine who in garden and groundskeeping spends 25 percent of their work time in common with those requiring care in daily-structured, etc., or not? Does it get more complicated? In every election campaign, one speaks of a necessary deconstruction of bureaucracy. Yet what results when ministerial officials write a law? Almost always a complicated and bureaucratic monster.

Is the government not in a position to formulate a law, for example, of this kind: “The employees who crucially work in the direct care and attendance of patients receive for their activity a tax- and duty-free bonus of 2,500 euros. All other employees who do not work directly with patients or those requiring care, yet who are in any case needed for the maintenance of the facility, receive this bonus pro rata”?

While the armaments industry will now be promoted with 100 billion euros, the Federal Government insults all those who have sacrificed themselves in service to people. Thus does one certainly not increase the attractiveness of the nursing vocation and obviate the nursing emergency. I therefore demand a nursing bonus which is correspondingly worthy of its recipients.

All must receive this bonus and not just those who have worked in a hospital in which in one year more than ten patients infected with the Corona virus have been treated, and these were at times ventilated more than 48 hours – thus it is in the same draft law. What distinguishes one nursing staff which has worked in a hospital in which only nine patients within twelve months were ventilated more than 48 hours from a nursing staff which has worked in a hospital with eleven ventilated patients?

Can this government, which constantly speaks of justice, not simply make an uncomplicated law which thinks of the co-workers? Yet here apparently I am thinking too pragmatically, too close to people. Therefore, please make out of this theoretically well meant law a law good in practice! Then we will with joy vote in favor.

I thank you for your attention.

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Gereon Bollmann, April 7, 2022, Equal Treatment Law

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/28, pp. 2451-2452.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

We are occupied today with an alteration of the general equal treatment law. Yet if the draft law is for once looked at more precisely, the disillusionment is great; since – colleague Wolf has already made mention of it – it is not about content, it is about an appointment to positions.

            Kaweh Mansoori (SPD): The content comes in a second step.

The appointment of the anti-discrimination leadership positions was lately many times – we have already heard from Herr Lehmann – challenged by a competing action. Yet it now does not somehow affect a lawful selection decision, though the posts were left vacant for four long years, and now the legislature should rule as quickly as possible. The applicant shall no longer be named by the Family Minister upon the proposal of the Federal government, but he shall be elected by the Bundestag.

            Ulle Schauws (Greens): Ja! Then you also can vote. That is just super!

Yet how nice that a suitable applicant can be now heaved into office without needing to fear a disagreeable competing action!

            Irene Mihalic (Greens): Oje!

Dear colleagues, daily in the public service numerous posts will be bestowed. Just because the Family Ministry is not in a position for a lawful selection process, nevertheless no law need be changed, Herr Lehmann.

Ulle Schauws (Greens): It also has to do with the theme’s higher value and importance! If for once you made yourself aware of it!

Simply suffices the strict adherence to the best selection. Here for once take remedial aid! Naturally this does not work if one wants to unconditionally assist a political favorite into this position. Nevertheless, give a bit more effort to the objections!

According to the draft law, the applicant shall be elected by the Bundestag. Yet behind the scenes the decision, as before, abides with the executive; since without a proposal from the Federal government, an election simply does not take place. It is thus a fairy tale. The leadership positions certainly do not obtain a higher value as a result of an election proceeding.

            Ulle Schauws (Greens): Just!

Since the executive still holds in its hands the decisive threads as before.

            Ulle Schauws (Greens): Naturally is that a higher valuation!

Ja, you think so.

In addition, the new regulation contradicts a central determination of our constitutional law, namely the separation of powers principle of Article 20, paragraph 2, line 2, of the Basic Law. – Take a look, just for once, Herr Rix. – According to this principle, the Bundestag has to limit itself to legislative activity and the control of the government. The appointment to a service post in the public administration is however neither legislation nor control.

            Filiz Polat (Greens): You want to be a lawyer and have no idea!

And this cannot be compared to the election of the Chancellor; since the election of the Chancellor is an exception, and exceptions are always to be handled on a limited basis.Thus the Bundestag elects neither the Ministers, the State Secretaries or other applicants for the higher service in the Federal officialdom. The recruitment of personnel is on the contrary the highest duty of the executive.

            Ulle Schauws (Greens): Crying does not make it better!

And even if we here elect no minister: Why should it then be right with regards to the separation of powers to appoint to an administrative post within a ministry by means of an election? This in any case is not disclosed to me.

            Stephan Brandner (AfD): To me neither.

            Irene Mihalic (Greens): You need not vote!

Once again, a draft law of the coalition disregards our Basic Law. It is somewhat pitiful to again need to look at how carelessly fundamental and unchanging pillars of a free, democratic state of law will be dealt with, which such outstanding thinkers as Aristotle, John Locke or Montesquieu have developed to stabilize a state by means of the separation of powers.

We reject election by the Bundestag for the service posts. We will watch with close attention how many remaining friends of our Basic Law this sovereign house indeed still has.

Many thanks for your attention.

            Katja Mast (SPD): Old, white men!

Ulle Schauws (Greens): That was incompetent! Child-men! You have understood simply nothing!

Filiz Polat (Greens): What an uncultivated man you are! Where did you have your upbringing?

 

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