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“Bitter Afternoon” – Ziemiak and Kretschmer Admit Damage Over Mask Affair
“The indecent behavior of individual parliamentarians put a lot of pressure on the electoral campaign”
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak justified his party’s poor performance in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate with the situation in the federal states and the matter of the Union masks. “Today is not a good election night for the CDU.”
CDU politicians see the mask issue as the reason for the party’s poor performance. Secretary General Paul Ziemiak made another point. All reactions on the live ticker.
CDU Secretary General Paul Ziemiak has justified his party’s poor performance with the masks issue. “Today is not a good election night for the CDU,” Ziemiak admitted. The “really indecent behavior and shamelessness of individual parliamentarians” also ensured that election activists were hit in the face, Ziemiak said. “That put a lot of pressure on the election campaign.”
Whoever enriches himself personally in the crisis has no place in the CDU. “A zero tolerance policy applies here.” In addition, resentment, misunderstanding and impatience with the management of the Corona crisis are growing in the population. That is why all those responsible have to ask themselves where they can become better, more pragmatic and faster. He appealed to the other parties: “It is not about pointing fingers at others, but about working every day to improve.”
There were also no mood swings in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. During the crisis, people trusted the rulers and heads of government. In Baden-Württemberg in particular, it was “a very personal victory for Winfried Kretschmann,” Ziemiak said.
Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has also attributed the CDU’s losses in state elections to the business of the masks of members of the Union Bundestag. Even if the parliamentary group tried to clear the table, “something always sticks,” the CDU politician told ZDF. That people are upset by what can be seen in the election results “is more than understandable,” Kretschmer said.
The CDU’s main candidate in Rhineland-Palatinate, Christian Baldauf, also gave the mask issue and the crown crisis the responsibility for the election result. “It is a bitter night for us, we wanted a better result,” said Baldauf in Mainz. He announced that the CDU now wanted to form “a strong opposition.”
Baden-Württemberg: all results and graphs at a glance
Rhineland-Palatinate: results and graphs of the state elections
