The Hesse-SPD had to suffer a lot of criticism with a controversial assignment. Now the CDU is asking whether Interior Minister Nancy Faser has released him.
A week ago, the Hessian SPD reportedly announced the election campaign for this year’s autumn state election with a social media post. In the opinion of political opponents and Twitter users, however, he has exceeded the mark with the controversial Twitter post. According to “Bild”, CDU secretary general Mario Czaja now wants to know in a letter whether the interior minister and possible candidate of the SPD for the elections in Hesse, Nancy Faeser, has approved the job.
What did it show? The assassination of CDU politician and Kassel district chairman Walter Lübcke took place around two and a half years ago. He was shot by a neo-Nazi on his terrace. The SPD recalled this on Twitter and asked whether the murder could not have been prevented if it weren’t for the CDU ministers.
“The responsible interior ministers Bouffier, Rhein and Beuth were obviously overwhelmed by the political leadership of the LfV,” read the tweet, posted on Friday. Above a picture of CDU politicians Stefan Heck, Volker Bouffier, Peter Beuth and Boris Rhein, the words “Walter Lübcke assassination: more than 15 years of domestic political failure” are emblazoned.
CDU secretary general Czaja writes in the letter, quoted by “Bild”, that the SPD is exploiting Lübcke’s assassination for electoral campaign purposes, thus violating every canon of decency and respect. “In the fight against the enemies of our open society, we need the cohesion and consensus of democrats.”
The SPD had to suffer a lot of criticism for the post. For example, Bundestag CDU member Serap Güler talks on Twitter about the “dirtiest election campaign the democrats have ever done”. Numerous Twitter users condemned the post in the comments as a “sleazy negative campaign”, “cheap populism” and “the manipulation of a horrible murder for electoral purposes”. The SPD deleted the post from its Twitter profile.
