2024-08-12 11:47:36
The interview was held at the Genscherhaus, which is the headquarters of the FDP party. Secretary General Bijan Djir-Sarai spoke about the federal budget. There is a classic business plan on the table: filter coffee and water. The politician stood in the water. Anyway, first of all: Two full Coca-Cola bottles stand out on your table in front of a Hanukkah. A yellow starter from Young Liberties is ready. Now it’s eleven, when will the first Coke come out?
Soon, confirmed Djir-Sarai, and immediately went ahead to the mega-topic of politicians’ food: You will not be able to eat during the day. Instead, he took what he could get. In your case, cola, coffee (four cups a day), lots of water. Isn’t that love, no time for food? Never. There are simply many more urgent things.
He does not eat anything during the day, but eats “relatively much” in the evening.
During the meeting weeks, a Monday for Djir-Sarai looks like this: Presidium, Federal Executive Council, press conference, parliamentary party executive committee, state party. Of course you can have pasta delivered every now and then. But then someone calls, or someone is at the door, or the SPD general secretary tweets something to which the FDP general secretary has to respond. Many MPS say something similar. Even ordinary workers experience stress. But they have little risk if they go to the restaurant again. In the evenings, Djir-Sarai sigh, it is “too much”.
If not on the appointment, like the next day. FDP summer festival in Havelland, Brandenburg. Our state election campaign. Of course there will be treatments, Djir-Sarai noted in her office. He dreamed of a bratwurst with mustard and a cold beer. But most of the time, he doesn’t eat because he has to talk a lot.
It’s different when you’re cooking at home. Djir-Sarai, who was born in Tehran, describes himself as a big fan of Persian cuisine. He cooks the classics well, something he learned from his mother or taught himself as a student. For example, Ghormeh Sabzi, a stew with herbs, beans and meat. He also makes crispy rice cakes in a Persian rice cooker, says the FDP man, whose mood seems to rise with every sentence that takes him further from the budget debate and towards cooking.
Well, there isn’t always time to cook either. But at the end of the month will be the highlight of Djir-Sarai’s year: a gun festival in his Neuss neighborhood. The politician marched in the grenadier platoon “Schöttelplacks” (small German for cloak). The shooting range and fair offer opportunities for cold beer and snacks: potato pancakes, sausage, popcorn, whatever your heart desires. Cola at Genscherhaus is a world away for a moment.
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