After the series of debacles in our politics, there’s finally some better news.
The current chairwoman of our CDU (christian-democratic party) has announced that she’ll resign from the post of the chairwoman and won’t run for the post of the Federal Chancellor.
A part of me is all “finally” because that woman definitely wasn’t suited for either of those positions.
During Carnival 2018 she made made some very poor jokes about intersex people. She also claimed that allowing homosexual marriage/giving homosexual married people the same rights as common marriages would lead to incest and plural marriages. It arouse lots of criticism.
Right before the EU election last year, there was a video where a German YouTuber criticized the CDU (along with other parties) for their politics. Roughly 70 YouTubers called for people not to vote for them. (The entire thing about the first YouTuber was ridiculous in itself - he spent lots of work on that video, a lot more than what’s done for most articles in daily newspapers. He’s been discredited as not being a proper journalist bc he “only” does YouTube, yet at the same time he was also criticized for “not following the standards of journalistic work”.)
The CDU chairwoman then suggested to change how “propaganda on the internet” is being handled and that there should be “rules” for election season regarding what’s being published/posted. She also compared the call not to vote CDU to what would happen if the same number of newspapers would do the same (hint: it’s uncommon, but not actually forbidden.)
Many people considered her statements as some kind of wish to censor free speech, especially in the social media. She got once again very massive criticism. Including an expert in constitutional law considering that statement constitutionally dubious.
After the death of a politician by (most likely) right-extremists she also stated that people being anonymous online is questionable. She suggested making the use of the real name mandatory - once again, she earned lots of criticism with that. I think I wrote about that when the discussion was happening.
In conclusion: it’s very good that she definitely won’t become the German Federal Chancellor, though I don’t see somebody else from her party as suitable candidate.
