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Nikolas Löbel has done a lot for his new reputation as a greedy rag. Last year, when millions of people stood on balconies to applaud local hospitals and nursing homes, Löbel tapped his keyboard and sent businesses via a Bundestag email account an offer to negotiate contracts for the acquisition of urgently needed protective masks. However, Löbel did not offer these services as a crisis-proof man of honor, but against a commission. He offered her as a merchant, not as a servant of the people.
As it stands, Nikolas Löbel used his political connections to use a private company to capitalize on those people who had previously elected MPs and who still fund their Bundestag term with their tax money to this day. On Sunday, Löbel initially only announced, under mounting pressure, that he would resign from his term shortly before the general election. What will remain of him despite this is the real impression that he was using his seat on the rear bench of parliament to enrich himself.
This total moral failure is to be lamented not only in Löbel, but also in structurally similar cases such as that of CSU MP Georg Nüßlein. It is regrettable in a different, minor and even more important way with CDU MP Philipp Amthor. While Nüßlein is still hiding from the public who also pay him, Amthor, whose lobbying issue has yet to be fully resolved, danced a self-directed political miracle cure over the weekend and let his regional association become the top candidate for the next federal campaign. choice choose.
As is often the case in Nikolas Löbel, political misconduct is followed by crisis management that further destroys trust. After he was caught, Löbel immediately tried to negotiate again. Would a withdrawal from the Committee on Foreign Affairs be enough to get away with it? Would it be enough for him to also abandon his candidacy for the next Bundestag? Nikolas Löbel offered neither true humility nor true repentance. No, he wanted to act in the public market again to save his political career.
Thomas Mann saw politics as an art that “does not disappear without the impact of the useful, evil and too earthy” but, more importantly, “never completely loses sight of the higher, the idea, the human and how decent. ” In this context, one must estimate the damage that individual deputies can do to the entire political class.
In human terms, Nikolas Löbel may even feel sorry for them. He was struck by wild digital fury and, of course, disgusting hatred. Politically, however, the damage caused by the deputy goes far beyond his career. Even if processes like Nikolas Löbel’s at the CDU can only be systematically and precisely clarified in each case to a limited extent, their mere appearance is already having real consequences for all elected officials and therefore for the entire country.
One can imagine federal election activists, regardless of democratic parties, wanting to defend or win back mandates against the AfD in their circles in the fall. One can imagine how Löbel’s name is mentioned on his stand in the market and how passersby then say goodbye with the accusation that “those from Berlin” were filling their pockets.
Professional politics is a difficult business in which many participate under great difficulty with an enduring idealism. In the future, these many will have to pay more attention to the fact that racing gains less momentum through features and unregulated activity. You must work to ensure that responsibilities and accountability remain clear. It must be emphasized that not only do parliamentary laws and other formal legalisms have authority for political behavior, but categories such as decency and morality are at least equal to these.
Difficult years are coming for the entire country. The uneven distribution of wealth, which has been growing for some time, coupled with uncertain economic prospects, results in a potentially toxic mix. In the near future, parliaments will also make a decisive decision about which country we want to be. One in which everyone fights for everyone or everyone for themselves. One in which those who “did it” and made the most of it are admired, or in which prudence and the common good are in the foreground. At a time like this, it is even more important that politicians lead by example.
