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Political ash Wednesday, in many places, cancelled
For the first Time since 1953: Due to the Zugunglücks falls of the traditional exchange of blows in Bavaria comprehensively. Also, the top SPD says events – out of respect for the Victims.
Horst Seehofer at the political ash Wednesday of the CSU in 2015 in Passau
The Political ash Wednesday, in Bavaria falls for the first time. After the train wreck of Bad Aibling, said CSU, SPD, Green, Left and other parties of its manifestations. Also the CDU dispenses with their traditional event with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Demmin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Bipartisan justification of the Refusals is the respect for the Victims of the Bahnunfalls. The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU boss Horst Seehofer wants to be on this Wednesday the site visit and with the people to speak to. “Bavaria has a We-feeling, which we, as the CSU, politically embody”, said CSU Secretary-General Andreas Scheuer in Passau. “This We feel we are taking account of.” The decision to have Seehofer met. “This train wreck is still so fresh in our minds, that we have the political responsibility and this event we have to cancel,” said Scheuer.
Settlement in Bierzeltatmosphäre
The Bavarian SPD Chairman Florian Pronold said, the political ash Wednesday live from the battle between the parties. “This is today and tomorrow, no room.” The SPD also said an appearance of the Bundesvorsitzenden Sigmar Gabriel Minister-President Malu Dreyer in Mainz. “For arguments and verbal sparring is not the right time,” said the Rhineland-Palatinate SPD.
Empty auditorium of the ” Bayern-SPD on the political ash Wednesday in Vilshofen (file picture)
The ash Wednesday, in Bavaria, is one of the most political appointments in the free state. Largest rally since several decades, the CSU-meeting in Passau, the after Scheuers information has never been cancelled. 1953 had the CDU sister party, under the leadership of Franz Josef Strauss her first ash Wednesday performed. The rhetorical tone of the events is traditionally rough. Suitable for Bierzeltatmosphäre without considering the political opponent charged.
“Not the right time”
The Green shared with most of her events would be held. Painted but would be an appointment with the Bundesvorsitzenden Cem Özdemir in the Bavarian Sulzberg and the political ash Wednesday of the Bavarian Green party in Landshut, Germany, where the Bundestag Vice-President Claudia Roth as a speaker was provided.
jj/wl (dpa, afp)