2024-08-15 15:16:39
Elections will be held in Thuringia on September 1st. In a CDU election campaign video, their top candidate Mario Voigt addresses voters in a serious tone – but the last sequence is surprising.
The CDU in Thuringia has caused mockery online with an election campaign stunt. There will be state elections in Thuringia on September 1st and the CDU regional association, led by top candidate Mario Voigt, has published a video on the short message platform X. The video shows, among other things, a little boy wearing sunglasses cheekily saying to the camera: “Höcke is stupid, really stupid!”
The boy’s clip can only be seen at the end. In the one and a half minutes before, Voigt speaks to an older lady in a kitchen. At the beginning, she asks him whether he would prefer salt or sugar in his coffee. He replies: “Sugar, salt doesn’t taste good at all.”
Then a conversation begins between the two, with the woman expressing her worries and fears. When she hears some people “talk like that,” the woman says, “I’ve experienced all that before.” She probably means Höcke and the Thuringian AfD. The AfD man has recently been making headlines more and more with his right-wing extremist rhetoric, some of which was already used in the Third Reich.
The ad continues and Voigt answers the woman: “We Thuringians won’t let our coffee be oversalted.” There is then a cut and the CDU politician speaks directly into the camera. “This time it’s about more than politics,” he says, and the rest of the video is also structured in a serious context. Then suddenly the little boy surprises everyone with his sentence against Höcke.
The video is met with ridicule. “Do you have any content or what should we expect if you help the AfD to power?” criticizes one user on X. And another user writes: “‘Höcke is stupid, really stupid.’ But so is the really cringe election advert from the CDU and Mario Voigt. Who is on the social media team? Kermit the Frog or Dennis the Badger?”
The AfD’s youth organization, the Junge Alternative, also commented on the video. In reference to the lady’s initial question about whether Voigt would like salt in his coffee, the chairman of the Berlin youth organization, Martin Kohler, mocked: “I have never been asked in Thuringia whether I would like salt in my coffee… it must not have been a CDU household.”
The state elections in Thuringia will take place on September 1, 2024. The AfD around Björn Höcke has a real chance of providing the future Prime Minister – that is, Höcke himself. In addition to Höcke and Voigt, the other top candidates are Bodo Ramelow (Left), Georg Maier (SPD), Katja Wolf (BSW), Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) and Green politician Madeleine Henfling.