In a Christmas video, Green Party politician Paula Piechotta made disparaging comments about Chancellor Scholz. At X there are clear reactions.
The Green Party politician Paula Piechotta has severely insulted Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In her Christmas video “Ostgrün – Beautiful presents” on December 24th, Piechotta said: “I would say that the SPD has known Olaf Scholz for a very long time. Everyone in the SPD knows that Olaf Scholz is an asshole.”
Piechotta had previously stated in the video that Germany was completely isolated in European politics. “Macron invites Zelensky and Trump to Notre Dame. Scholz isn’t even there, that’s dramatic.” She believes that parties are actually there to “put people through their paces until they are sure that this person can be trusted with public office.”
The SPD did not elect Scholz to the party leadership years ago, but then made him its candidate for chancellor “due to a lack of alternatives”. But right now all of Germany is seeing “the real Olaf Scholz, and he’s simply not a great statesman, I’m sorry.”
Piechotta is a doctor, lives in Leipzig and has been a member of the Bundestag for the Greens since 2021. She is also a city council member.
At X, Piechotta’s clip sparked outrage, particularly among users close to the SPD. “You remember that,” writes Mattheus Berg, for example. The SPD member of the Bundestag Martin Rosemann from Thuringia writes: “An incredible derailment. At least an apology is required here!”
And SPD householder Torsten Schmidt remarks: “The Greens get a heart attack every time they write a critical article about Habeck, but @PaulaPiechotta calls the Chancellor an asshole. Tomorrow they’ll shout hate and hate again and put out hundreds of reports. Unreasonable double standards.”
Piechotta herself commented on the controversy surrounding her Christmas video on X on Friday evening. She herself did not insult Scholz, but rather spoke “about the opinion of Olaf Scholz in the SPD, as SPD members repeatedly express it to us.” “Dear colleagues from the SPD, dear Olaf Scholz, my words have obviously offended you, for that I apologize. I would like to emphasize once again, as mentioned above, that it is not my personal opinion that Olaf Scholz should be described in this way.” , she wrote. Piechotta wrote that she could delete the relevant passage from the podcast if she wanted to.