[German] “Il Bundestag non è una tenda da circo”: Merz difende la decisione di Klöckner contro la bandiera arcobaleno al CSD
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/der-bundestag-ist-ja-nun-kein-zirkuszelt-merz-verteidigt-klockners-entscheidung-gegen-regenbogenfahne-am-csd-13951300.html
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>The Reichstag is to remain free of rainbow colours for the Berlin CSD. Chancellor Merz thinks this is right. ‘No flags are hung in the German parliament at random,’ he says.
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>Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz has backed Bundestag President Julia Klöckner’s sometimes hotly debated stance on Christopher Street Day (CSD) on 26 July.
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>The CDU leader said on the ARD talk show ‘Maischberger’ when asked how he felt about Klöckner’s decision not to fly the rainbow flag on the Bundestag for CSD: ‘The Bundestag is not a circus tent’ on which flags can be hoisted at will.
>There is one day a year, 17 May – the day against homophobia – on which the rainbow flag is hoisted. “On all other days, the German flag and the European flag are flown at the German Bundestag and no other. And this decision is the right one.”
>The Chancellor said that everyone could fly whatever flags they wanted on their own doorstep. ‘But we’re talking about the German parliament here, and in the German parliament, we don’t fly flags at random every day, but the German national flag and the European flag.’
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>In May, Klöckner caused a stir when she announced that in future she would only fly the rainbow colours on International Day against Homophobia (17 May) and no longer at the Berlin CSD. The rainbow flag was first hoisted at the Bundestag in 2022.
>Klöckner’s decision had been criticised by the Greens and the Left, among others, but also by the Lesbian and Gay Association in the CDU. However, the President of the Bundestag has repeatedly defended her actions.
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>Merz’s statement has now also been criticised. “The rainbow flag is not a symbol for a circus. It stands for the rights of people who have a much harder time today than they did years ago,” wrote former Federal Health Minister and SPD MP Karl Lauterbach on X. ‘This gesture would have done the Bundestag good in view of the many anti-democrats in parliament.’
Not wanting to hang it is one thing, but saying out loud that a pride flag makes the Bundestag a ‘circus tent’? Now that’s just too far.
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This country is become a joke, equally almost to Trumpist America.. calling a section of your populace “part of a circus” is so disrespectful and disingenuous.. not to mention everything else this man has done to help AFD gain more ground since the election. There is reckoning on the horizon, and CDU/CSU will directly be responsible for it. And Germany will once again be ruled by those who seeks to wipe out a whole group of peoples they deem unworthy.
Couldnt agree more!
In Germany we would call that being a Hurensohn
>There is one day a year, 17 May – the day against homophobia – on which the rainbow flag is hoisted.
Perfectly fine. Nothing wrong with this.
>”On all other days, the German flag and the European flag are flown at the German Bundestag and no other. And this decision is the right one.”
Sound logic. Can’t argue with that.
>The Chancellor said that everyone could fly whatever flags they wanted on their own doorstep.
Reasonable. Freedom of expression all the way.
Can’t criticize Merz for anything here. Logical, common sense things.
More than half of the Bundestag is filled with right wing extremists and corrupt politicians. It is by far the biggest circus in the country but the pride flag has nothing to do with it.
sounds pretty boomerish
Terrible terrible headline that gives the wrong impression. He isn’t saying the pride flag specifically makes the reichstag a circus.
It’s clearly an unfortunate comment but it doesn’t seem to carry the meaning the headline implies