The Greens have been part of the federal government for a day: Cem Özdemir and Annalena Baerbock are closely monitored on social networks.
Berlin – It was one of the pictures of the day of the handover from Angela Merkel (CDU) to Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the new red-yellow-green federal government: Cem Özdemir, new Minister of Agriculture, gets on an e-bike to go from the Bundestag to the castle Bellevue to come and back again. With a bicycle helmet and two security guards, he reaches his destination faster than the ministers in the limousine.
“There he goes, the transport minister of the heart. By bike for your own swearing-in. Cem Özdemir “, wrote a Twitter user, probably also to the address of the FDP and Volker Wissing. “Because I’m fast”, Özdemir is said to have justified his choice of means of transport to a TV broadcaster. And actually he was able to overtake the limousines in the dense Berlin traffic.
Cem Özdemir (Greens) is the new Minister of Agriculture – ZDF and Postillon react to his bike ride
Whether the approach was actually so pragmatic, or whether Özdemir (Greens) consciously relied on the great impact of the pictures, remains to be seen: his action was in any case much discussed, admired and praised.
Video: Özdemir comes to the handover by bike
The Green politician got a little bit of political satire: The “Today Show” posted a montage of pictures of Özdemir wearing a bicycle helmet at the swearing-in ceremony. Under the heading “Now he’s exaggerating.”
The satirical magazine Postillon had a similar idea: Here Özdemir was mounted on a cow and wrote: “Now he’s exaggerating.”
Green Foreign Minister: Criticism of Annalena Baerbock because of her flight to Paris
The criticism of the new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, looks completely different. One day after taking office, Annalena Baerbock traveled to Paris for an inaugural visit to her French colleague. By plane. But there is criticism of the green politician: “Baerbock has not been in office for 24 hours and is already the most ridiculous person in the new government. She wants to abolish short-haul flights (up to 1,000 km) ”, writes a user about the new minister’s trip to Paris. Less harmless other tweets: Baerbock is called “Besserwessie”, incompetence is assumed and her appearance is judged on her body when she is sworn in.
Not an easy start for the Foreign Minister on social media. One user sums up: “How many utterances in the style of ‘aha, a green Foreign Minister Baerbock is flying somewhere by plane’ can we endure in the next four years? It’s already almost unbearable. ”Even Angela Merkel (CDU) was initially not taken seriously as a woman – how she got rid of it. (kat)
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