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FDP chief Christian Lindner addressed the old man’s joking allegation on Saturday with a comment directed at former Secretary General Linda Teuteberg. Lindner said in his speech at the party’s federal congress in Berlin: “I like to think about it, Linda, that in the last 15 months we have started the day about 300 times, I did it about 300 times.”
In response to the laughter in the hallway, he continued: “I am talking about our daily morning phone call about the political situation. It’s not what you think now. “
The scene drew criticism on Twitter. CDU MP Matthias Hauer wrote there, for example, alluding to the motto of the FDP party congress: “#MissionAltherrenwitz instead of #Mission Aufbruch.”
Lindner responded in the evening, also on Twitter: “I beg your indulgence: The mention of the morning conference call with the Secretary General was not a joke; the occasional laughter irritated me,” he wrote. “So it was just a misleading phrase. Once on Twitter, if in doubt, please for the accused … “
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