State elections BW and RLP: Tone between Union and SPD tilts

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Shortly before the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the SPD is violently attacking its coalition partner in the federal government, CDU / CSU, in the mask and lobbying affair.

SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans told WELT AM SONNTAG: “I will stick with it: The panic reaction after years of blocking any push for more transparency and tougher sanctions will only become credible if there are serious steps to implement it after the elections.

The announcement of 'the most brutal possible enlightenment' - as at the time by the then Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch in the affair about black coffers - has been made several times. "

The declaration of honor by the Union MPs also sounds more like a helpless attempt at self-staging than a consistent punishment of greed and nepotism, according to Walter-Borjans.

In the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (FAS), too, the SPD leader shot sharply at the Union: “In parts of the CDU and CSU, the principle that one hand washes the other has repeatedly come to light.

The detergent is money - and some of these parties are particularly close to that ”.

But half a year before the federal election, poison arrows fly back from the Union.

CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak told the FAS that the candidacy of the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz had been "an unprecedented blown".

The SPD has been abusing the corona crisis to campaign against the Union for months.

“Now she's going one step further, in a rather brazen way to scorn thousands of CDU members.

The fact that committed CDU politicians are blanketed under suspicion by Norbert Walter-Borjans is not only cheap, but also unworthy of the former SPD People's Party. "

SPD should sweep on their own doorstep

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CSU General Secretary Markus Blume reminded the Social Democrats of their own misconduct.

“Unlike the hypocritical SPD, the Union reacted quickly and extremely consistently to the inexcusable behavior of its former members.

While the Union clears the table, the SPD wants to cover up, veil and distract people on their own doorstep, ”said Blume from the FAS.

The SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has “still not commented on his dubious role at Wirecard and the crooked cum-ex deals in Hamburg.

The SPD member of the Bundestag Marcus Held is on trial for embezzlement, fraud and corruption.

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as a Russian mercenary, is unabashedly lobbying for an autocratic regime.

But nobody in the SPD draws any conclusions.

Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken should urgently start cleaning up their own shop. "

Olaf Scholz himself said to WELT AM SONNTAG that there are currently “unsavory processes” in the Union parliamentary group.

Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) sees the declaration of honor as evidence of the “enormous uncertainty in the Union shortly before the state elections.

The CDU and CSU have a real fire under the roof, ”he told WELT AM SONNTAG.

The parliamentary manager of the Greens Britta Haßelmann said: “The CDU and CSU have a structural problem.

If the Union does not want to sink even deeper into its crisis of confidence, it must not stop at declarations of intent: We call on the CDU and CSU to clear the way for stricter and stricter rules for more transparency as quickly as possible. ”This also includes Lobby register and "a real legislative footprint in all laws of the federal government and parliament, so that citizens can clearly see who has exerted influence."