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Comment: a Telling silence

Not a word of the Chancellor. The Minister remained silent. Efficient Work! The asylum package II was also accepted. Functional ability proven! Really now? Marko Langer is not quite convinced.

Perhaps it is naive to run their election campaigns, and this mood of the European Union a few honest words from the Boss is to be expected. Instead: You can’t do everything. Or everything himself. Let the other once.

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No, thinks the Chancellor is not. But you would you like to yell out: “Nice to see you!” Because: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was there, she stood at the urn in the Bundestag, with the blue cards, the approval and with the red cards, the rejection can be filed. What would come out, it was pretty clear.

24 hours in the German Bundestag

Everything Routine? Well, Yes. The procedure after months of wrestling with the asylum package II – within the Union, in the governing coalition with the social Democrats and also with the marginalized Opposition – was in the past few days into some jerk got. Clausnitz, Saxony, burning Ausländerunterkünfte. Everything Routine? Hardly even.

And so there was 24 hours in the German Bundestag, it had. On Wednesday, first the “point 1” to 157. Session of the German Bundestag: “Agreed debate to Clausnitz and Bautzen.” Designated speaking time: one hour, ten minutes. Not provided: the presence of the Chancellor or a Minister. Politics is symbolism. “If it’s out of this world are in Parliament, the Sonderdebatte on Tuesday was not one of them,“ noted Constanze von Bullion in the süddeutsche Zeitung.

Not 24 hours later: Now they were there. The Chancellor, the Minister, the party leader and the public gallery was full. The parliamentarians had also, finally, was in particular to vote.

The speech escape

Unfortunately was no longer there, the observer Roger Willemsen. The was never a vote in the Bundestag. But he had the knack of splendidly formulated, for example, in his book about the High house:

“You like to get out on the seats, on the sidewalks, would like to have some of the find what people Express, and entirely without parliamentary representation. You want the speech to escape and something really Meant, Tough to listen to, a bit to the Improper of the Palavers Entzogenes.“

Palaver? The adoption of the so-called Asylpakets II, the fast-track procedure for refugees from so-called safe Countries of origin provides, was a lot more. People with restricted protection, you should have two years their families will not be able to make up, and deportations are facilitated. And yet, had you, as an observer, the desire “of the speech escape” to want. As Willemsen.

Marko Langer, DW-radio’s Central newsroom

Why? Not only because of the homophobia, the churches and charities of this asylum package II attest. In other beyond election campaigns and day-to-day judgments. Level-headed, wise witnesses such as Holocaust Survivors Ruth Klüger, the first in January in this Parliament, the magnanimity of the Chancellor, and their refugee policy commended.

Red, blue, yellow, colorless

No, the speech wanted to escape, who this morning in the Bundestag longer listened to. And the performances of very different parliamentarians experienced their names only for specialists or for the respective constituencies, are of concern. Nina Warken example, for the CDU in the interior Committee is sitting, and which, according to their frequently interrupted contribution in her blue handbag nestelte. Or Ulla Jelpke (the Left), in symbolkräftigem Red to the lectern, and for the policies of the Federal government, only the words “intolerable” and “disgusting” had left. For the Greens went after their leader Katrin Göring-Eckhardt to the Board. Yellow jacket, by the way.

Again and again, Willy Brandt

Please: Nothing against red or blue stealth Hinterbänklerinnen or against decoloration ankämpfende opposition leader! Also they make difficult, responsible, important parliamentary work. But on this morning, so many different speakers, including Sebastian Hartmann of the SPD or Jan Korte of the Left on the large social-Democrats Willy Brandt and his experience of flight and exile-related, showed the whole Dilemma: The people, the one here in this week, like one would have kept their mouths shut. What a pity! In order not to become more explicit.

Where: At the end you would have said something wrong. Namely, the whole truth about this horrible asylum package II, which is just about the opposite of the welcome of the year 2015.

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