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Berlin (dpa) - The federal government has rejected an assessment of the unsuccessful appearance of Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) on the new audio app Clubhouse.
"That stands for itself and needs no further comment," said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Monday in Berlin.
Ramelow had told the app in a panel discussion that he sometimes played Candy Crush on his smartphone at the hour-long federal-state meetings on how to proceed in the corona pandemic.
He also referred to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) there as “Merkelchen”, for which he has since apologized.
Seibert said at the federal press conference to Clubhouse that many politicians, journalists and those involved in public communication would probably try the app right now.
"There are initial experiences, I personally have none."
The CDU chairman and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, assured after the meetings of the presidium and board of his party in Berlin that he did not play computer games during the prime ministerial conferences because they were about very important issues.
«We decide on fundamental encroachments on fundamental rights.
We decide after weighing up damage to school, education, the economy.
And you have to be very focused. "
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