Wegen AfD: Spontaner Protestmarsch der SPD‑Fraktion – Pistorius stimmt Nationalhymne an
Bei einem Protestmarsch haben die SPD-Abgeordneten am Dienstag gegen den ersten AfD-Ministerpräsidenten demonstriert. Boris Pistorius hielt eine engagierte Rede.
Following the election of the first AfD Landtag president, the Bundestag's SPD fraction spontaneously gathered for a protest march in Berlin. The lawmakers walked from the Bundeshaus through the Brandenburg Gate to the Bebelplatz, the site of book burnings after the Nazis took power in 1933. Several MPs carried copies of the Grundgesetz with them.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius ended the demonstration by singing the national anthem after an impassioned speech. "This is no ordinary day," said Fraktion leader Matthias Miersch. The SPD felt a duty to display the flag when democracy was under pressure. It was the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic that right-wing extremists had been elected to a Landtag presidency.
"This must alarm us all," Miersch said. AfD politician Tobias Rausch had received four more votes in a secret ballot in Magdeburg than AfD and the BSW together had in the Landtag. Pistorius strongly criticized this. "This is the day of anger, this is the day of disappointment that democratic women and men apparently have learned nothing from history and let history repeat itself," he demanded. "Anyone who allowed this has betrayed the democracy of our great country."
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