The FDP is not so much concerned with clarifying the matter with its criminal complaint against the Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Strobl.
A second preliminary investigation should drive him further into a corner.
It is an irony of history that the charge of evading criminal prosecution was filed in the office.
Strobl only got involved in an initial preliminary investigation because he allegedly (himself?) pushed through allegations against a police inspector of sexual harassment.
Certainly not to suppress the enlightenment, as the FDP is now insinuating with its ad.
Strobl's clumsiness is that there would have been quite regular official channels that could and should ensure this.
Talking about a “banana republic”, as the FDP does, is the usual accompaniment to such “scandals”.
The opposition is doing its duty, even if it's obviously only about something "sticking" to Strobl.
This will have repercussions on the CDU, in which Strobl actually has to work towards an era of failure and self-mutilation finally coming to an end.
Hopes were pinned on the end of Winfried Kretschmann's era, who has so far been adamant about his minister.
In the CDU, Strobl's opponents will still sense the dawn.
A new morning is not necessarily associated with this for the CDU.