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Stuttgart / Tübingen (dpa) - The Greens in Baden-Württemberg want to exclude the Mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer from the party.
At the state party conference, 161 delegates voted for an expulsion procedure, 44 against and 8 abstained.
Palmer had previously caused outrage on Facebook with statements about former national soccer player Dennis Aogo.
Green country chief Oliver Hildenbrand said in Stuttgart about the elimination proceedings against Palmer: “The time is ripe for it.
Because the measure is full. "
He had previously stated that Palmer's statement about Aogo was "racist and repulsive".
The Tübingen mayor ensures that the public debate is polarized with “staged breaking of taboos”.
Before the vote, the Tübingen mayor asked for a counter-speech to the party congress and declared that it was “baseless and absurd accusations”.
The point here is to silence dissenting voices.
"Therefore I cannot and will not withdraw."
However, he recommended that the party congress approve the motion for a process of elimination.
Then he finally had the opportunity to defend himself against the allegations.
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The state party had already suggested Palmer's exit in May 2020 and threatened him with an expulsion process. Even then, Palmer had caused outrage several times with provocative statements, including a sentence about dealing with corona patients. "We may save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway," he said in an interview.
There is currently a discussion with Facebook users in which Palmer repeated a racist and obscene term from a quote attributed to Aogo on Friday and commented, obviously ironically: "Aogo is a bad racist." As a justification, he referred to an unverified Facebook comment in which it had been claimed without any evidence that Aogo had used the N-word for himself. The term N-Wort is used today to describe a racist term used in Germany for black people.
Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock said on Saturday morning: «The statement by Boris #Palmer is racist and repulsive.
Appealing to irony afterwards does not undo it.
The whole thing is part of ever new provocations that exclude and hurt people.
Boris Palmer has therefore lost our political support.
After the renewed incident, our state and federal committees will discuss the corresponding consequences, including the exclusion process. "
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Palmer himself stated in a long Facebook statement on Saturday that he had exaggerated a debate with the stylistic device of irony into the grotesque.
"Linking my criticism of Aogo and Lehmann's ban on appearing with racism is as absurd as declaring Dennis Aogo a" bad racist "because racist statements are put into his mouth on the Internet."
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Palmer statement on Facebook
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Original Palmer entry on "Cancel Culture"
Application to the state party conference
Decision of the Southwest Greens from May 2020 with the threat of regulatory proceedings