Wednesday 4th August 2021
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Rülke misses Schmiedel and Mappus
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Pforzheim (dpa / lsw) – FDP parliamentary group leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke mourns the good old days when it comes to the rhetoric in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. “What I am missing are robust fellow discussants such as Stefan Mappus from the CDU and Claus Schmiedel from the SPD,” said the 59-year-old in the “Pforzheimer Zeitung” (Wednesday). “There are now too many crybugs for that, who can hand out but immediately become depressed if you criticize them yourself.”
Rülke has been in the state parliament for the Liberals since 2006. During his political career, Mappus was, among other things, CDU parliamentary group leader and until the state elections in 2011, CDU state chief and prime minister. Schmiedel was parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the state parliament from 2008 to 2016.
The FDP MP Rülke is known for pointed to provocative statements. Shortly before the summer break, he caused a minor scandal because he spoke of a “state secretary people’s storm” in connection with newly created government posts. The Greens and the CDU were outraged. The state secretaries concerned protested against being brought up in connection with the Volkssturm as Adolf Hitler’s last contingent. Rülke refuses an apology, also pointing out that the term was already used during the French Revolution, for example during the storming of the Bastille in Paris in 1789.
He told the newspaper: “The judgment of what is said in the state parliament is up to the incumbent elected presidents. And I have never been reprimanded by them. I am now in the 16th year in the state parliament and have not received a single call to order . ” In fact, Vice-President Wolfgang Reinhart (CDU) hadn’t said anything at the time, but Landtag President Muhterem Aras (Greens) later sent Rülke a letter with a reprimand.
“The current attempts to put myself in the right corner should only distract from my own failure,” said Rülke. “Two weeks ago the Greens and the CDU elected an AfD man to be a constitutional judge, for which they were deservedly scolded from within their own ranks.”
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