“Similar conviction” of state leadership?: Kubicki apologizes to Habeck for Putin comparison

The deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki apologized “in all forms” to the Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) after a comparison with Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin.

“To put him in line with a wanted war criminal is utter nonsense and a blunder. That doesn’t work at all,” said Kubicki of the German Press Agency on Wednesday in Berlin.

“Robert Habeck is an upstanding Democrat and I’d rather argue with him on the matter than over the path of defamation.”

In the talk show “Veto” on the platform “MASS TASTE TV”, Kubicki said, among other things: “Putin and Habeck have a similar conviction that the state, the leader, the chosen ones, know better than the people what is good for them. ”

Kubicki continues to heat up the traffic light dispute

Habeck has a concept of freedom that “Vladimir Putin could easily translate to his own ruling milieu”. Accordingly, Putin wants to achieve his goals through violence, “Habeck would do that through bans,” argued Kubicki in his ideology comparison.

The 71-year-old also claimed that the Russian head of state and the Federal Minister of Economics only differed in their choice of political means.

With his statement, Kubicki had once again exacerbated tensions within the traffic light coalition at the federal level.

The statements were sharply criticized by the Greens. Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice-President of the Bundestag, told the Tagesspiegel: “That’s not how democratic parties treat each other, and certainly not among coalition partners.”

“Meaningless noise” – Kubicki already dealt against the Greens on Sunday

She accused Kubicki of damaging the office of Bundestag Vice President and also damaging his party: “The FDP as a whole must be careful not to continue to be sidelined. Wolfgang Kubicki once again violated the dignity of the office and in terms of content the FDP mutated into a naysayer party. I find that very unfortunate and worrying,” she said.

Already last Sunday, Kubicki had etched against the Greens – his party’s coalition partner in the federal government. “Even if it hurts the green colleagues, but the chancellor is not there to implement the green party-political agenda,” said Kubicki in the Tagesspiegel on the demand of green politicians for the chancellor’s power word in the internal traffic light conflict with the FDP.

At the same time, Kubicki referred to the Greens’ falling poll numbers. “They compensate for their dwindling importance with meaningless noise,” he said.

Since party leader Christian Lindner took office in December 2013, Kubicki has been deputy federal chairman of the FDP. Since October 2017, he has been the Vice President of the German Bundestag, i.e. the deputy of Parliament President Bärbel Bas (SPD) – the highest-ranking representative in Germany by protocol. (tsp, dpa)

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Source: Tagesspiegel

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