In the so-called free economy, people shake their heads: 1500 euros as a corona bonus for the board?
What is now being accused of the top of the Greens and is the subject of an investigation would even be suitable to ask the ironic question of competence: Isn't it a violation of compliance just to approve a tip like this?
But in politics it is different.
And indeed, the question arises as to how big the outcry would have been if, for example, Friedrich Merz or Armin Laschet had approved this bonus for themselves and their board colleagues.
There are indeed more important things – the Ukraine conflict, the climate crisis, gender issues – and initial suspicions are quickly raised.
One can be lenient with the leadership of the Greens.
But shouldn't they be judged by their own standards?
The Greens have already announced that the payment was a mistake.
At least the reasoning.
Because it is already clear that numerous others, even non-Greens, worked hard during the Corona crisis and deserved at least the same bonuses.
No, that's less of a case for the criminal justice system.
It is about the political integrity of those who claim to have leased morality.
But they don't.
Good if that insight is the result of that posse.