“As a lawyer, I would say: it hit him”: the general SPD mocks the CSU Ms Bär – video

What happens next after the traffic light coalition fails? The guests discussed this on Monday night at “Hard but Fair”. The main hot topic was the timing of the new elections. While the Union asked for new elections earlier than the SPD, the Federal Electoral Officer Ruth Brand appealed not to rush the date. For the General Secretary of the CDU Carsten Linnemann, this is “shameful and disgraceful”. Lawyer and general secretary of the SPD Matthias Miersch criticized the Union’s communication about the demonstration.

Miersch laughs at Bär: “Then as a lawyer I would say: it hit him.”

“We all have a big responsibility here,” Miersch said. You can argue about the election dates, but you can’t attack the election officer. According to Miersch, Friedrich Merz also admitted this “to the executive board of the parliamentary group”. “At least that’s how I read it,” he explains.

Then Dorothee Bär criticized Miersch: “I was there, unlike them.” Miersch then wanted to find out from Bär if his statement was true. “Yes, you can prove it – or is that a hoax?” Bär explained: “I do not quote from internal meetings. ” said lawyer Miersch: “Aha, okay, good. Then as a lawyer I would say: it hit him.”

Friedrich Merz also for new elections later

In a letter to Olaf Scholz, Federal Electoral Officer Ruth Brand warned against early elections. For a proper election, the period of 60 days from the dissolution of the Bundestag must be used in full, said Brand. At the same time, at the executive committee meeting of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Friedrich Merz spoke out for new elections between the middle and the end of February. The German News Agency and the Reuters news agency reported this unanimously.