It's vacation time soon!

After this hammer start, you rightly expect travel tips, which we deliver on time despite the shortage of containers on the world market.

It starts with camping, or camping, as the polyglot AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla called it this week.

A lot can go wrong here, although we are not talking about the campsite itself, but about the way the tent is used.

In any case, Chrupalla, the old word fox and metaphor marten, this week described what was probably his worst holiday experience in view of the growing resentment in his own ranks because of the election failures achieved under his leadership: In the past, those who had previously peed in it themselves would have complained about a wet tent.

Stephen Locke

Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.

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The collectively shocked federal press conference sharpened its pencils: After the revelation of the forced pots of the smallest GDR citizens, who, according to Professor Pfeiffer with three Fs, the way to democracy seemed to be blocked a few decades ago, was it here again nasty SED legacies the trace?

Is there a causal connection between tent_internal peeing and AfD affinity?

And what was to come, especially since Chrupalla was also talking about cacophony all the time, a word he constantly stressed on the first syllable, with c before the second K?

But the AfD boss had obviously stepped out of the tent on the wrong foot that morning and slipped into his election slippers.

Because in the past he would have accused the "old parties" of not being able to hold the water;

today he confirmed to his own comrades that they were not house or tent clean.

The latter, in turn, are now wondering why the man is still allowed to lecture from up there in view of the constant flow of new election results, which just about correspond to the alcohol content of a standard Pilsner.

Chrupalla, in turn, seemed to have consumed one of these in preparation that morning (the "Elferzug", as it is called in his homeland), because it then had to disappear remarkably quickly.

That doesn't surprise us, since we know the farmer's rule: beer in the morning unmatched, one drunk, four sifted.

One could learn from the East

But enough of the practical jokes at the expense of small parties.

Rather, we need to talk about the largest party, which strictly speaking isn't one at all: that of the non-voters.

45 percent did not go to the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia.

So they clearly became the strongest force even without overhang and equalization mandates, but they should at most camp in front of the state parliament.

The chancellor party SPD cannot explain its losses, especially since the party leadership has self-critically classified its performance in the middle on a scale from excellent to outstanding since taking office in Berlin.

And Olaf Scholz even confessed this week that he was not available for short photo sessions, rather it had to be "always about very specific things".

But what does that mean?

That there is also film in the camera?

Or heavy weapons to Dusseldorf?

We find that the right attitude is also missing.

And one could definitely learn from the East.

In the GDR, people went to vote even though there was nothing to vote for.

Force of habit!

You also went shopping.

And saved a lot at the checkout.

That was resource-saving and therefore an important topic, especially for young readers, who can still learn from the old ones in this regard.

In Chemnitz, the police pulled a car out of traffic on Wednesday whose 61-year-old driver identified himself with a GDR passport.

Such a one was once so rare that it is hard to see why it should be invalid today.

According to reports, the man wanted to go camping, but his car was neither registered nor insured, but had an imaginary number plate.

His relatives then had to

what politicians are advised to do during election campaigns: meet people where they are.

Even if it's a freeway parking lot.