Insult: “Söder is not only physically disabled – he is also mentally disabled,” says the AfD politician | EUROtoday

The AfD offered it as a “big summit meeting”. Last Wednesday the get together celebrated its election marketing campaign kick-off within the Badnerlandhalle Karlsruhe. The audio system included Markus Frohnmaier, who will likely be operating as his get together’s high candidate in Baden-Württemberg on March eighth, and Ulrich Siegmund, who wish to grow to be Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt within the fall. Emil Sätze, co-chairman of the AfD regional affiliation in Baden-Württemberg, moderated the occasion.

“We didn’t come to play, we want to take over this government,” stated Sähne, opening the occasion. “Everyone talks about us, everyone doesn’t like us. But that doesn’t matter to us because we are practically the holders of the actual truth.” The AfD is “the beacon of the demise of the old parties”. With a view to Winfried Kretschmann’s state authorities, the state parliament member declared that the “green-black experiment” ought to be ended “for all time.”

“We let Söder live – he’s always funny every now and then”

His feedback concerning the CSU chairman brought on an argument. “Now there are many interesting people from Bavaria who suddenly repeat our slogans and make them socially acceptable,” stated Sanzen in his introduction. “I mean, Söder is not only physically disabled, but also sometimes mentally, ladies and gentlemen. But we let him live – he’s always funny.”

The State Association for People with Physical and Multiple Disabilities (LVKM) clearly criticized Sätze’s statements. “Using disability as a swear word to denigrate other people or to make fun of them is unacceptable and really the bottom drawer,” defined LVKM managing director Jutta Pagel-Steidl to the native media “Waiblinger Kreiszeitung”, which first reported on the statements.

“A choice of words like the one Mr. Sanzen used in his speech hurts, leaves you speechless” and is “a slap in the face,” stated Pagel-Steidl, who additionally acts as second deputy chairwoman of the SWR Broadcasting Council. “People with disabilities and their families feel rejected as a result, feel powerless, helpless. What comes next?”

“Disgusting and the worst jargon,” complains CSU politician Huber

When requested by the “Waiblinger Kreiszeitung”, CSU General Secretary Martin Huber additionally commented on the method. “What the AfD state leader is saying here is inhumane and anti-democratic, simply: disgusting and the worst jargon,” emphasised the Bavarian member of the state parliament. For Sätze, this should be a “crystal clear reason for resignation”. “People are seeing more and more clearly what they get when they vote for these guys from the AfD: low-level hatred, social division, exclusion and personal insults of the worst kind.”

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“Two absolute low points of political unculture,” complained Huber in his response. “With the AfD: the worst jargon, inhumane, divisive, full of hatred and agitation. With the AfD this may no longer be surprising, but with the Green Youth?” They bully within the worst potential approach, despite the fact that they in any other case place nice worth on decency and morality. He expects a “crystal-clear apology and distancing” from the get together management.