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The author described an editorial of the conservative newspaper Le Figaro as brutal and as a reckoning with France's political system and its elite. He wrote that the editorial criticized a judiciary that is lenient towards criminals but unforgiving towards decent citizens, and denounced what he sees as an "incomprehensible privilege" of the far-left. #Frankreich #Politik #LeFigaro #FR (translated)

The author wrote that there are still realistic conservative forces in the CDU and CSU, especially in Bavaria. He reported that Jan Pfadenhauer directly criticized Chancellor Merz at the Young Union and accused him of a "predatory campaign against the younger generation." At the same time, the author expressed the assessment that Merz would likely not be impressed by this. #CDU #Politik #JungeUnion (translated)

Jotam Confino wrote that four parties had told B.T. that they expected the police to intervene in case of possible law violations during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Copenhagen. According to Confino, B.T. had documented that several demonstrators openly celebrated Hamas and the massacre on October 7. The Social Democrats' political spokesman, Rasmus Stoklund, told B.T. that he only knew of the demonstration from the media coverage. He condemned the glorification of Hamas and the attack on October 7 and expected the authorities to intervene in case of law violations regarding masking or glorification of terror. The Conservatives' political spokesman, Frederik Mønster, said that a local branch of the Red-Green Alliance participated. He believed that it showed a problematic tendency on the far left to ally with terror sympathizers and anti-Semites and urged the Red-Green Alliance to strongly distance itself from the behavior. #demonstration #København #terrorisme (translated)

Martin Reichardt thanked the CSU for documenting the appearance of Vice President Andrea Lindholz and Bernd Kaiser for a comment he reportedly adopted. Reichardt recalled a statement made by Left Party MP Gebel in March. She had countered him in the Bundestag by saying that the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, but he was still more sensitive. According to Reichardt, this remark was met with thunderous applause; no one was offended by the wording. Gebel had also miscalculated by 7,000 nerve endings. This week, Reichardt hinted that Gebel did not know her own sexual organ. Lindholz subsequently spoke of an invasion of privacy and misogyny, and imposed a fine on him, he wrote. Reichardt accused the Bundestag of double standards: when a left-wing politician aims below the belt, it is cheered, while the same wording from a conservative is regarded as an attack on the dignity of parliament. He described this as a whiny double standard and demanded that the parliament not measure with a double yardstick. #Doppelmoral #Klitoris #Bundestag #Doppelmoral #Bundestag #Politik (translated)

ULTRAKÆRL praised a segment on "Monitor" about a possible ban procedure against the AfD and parallels to the unimplemented ban of the NSDAP. The Union is making the same mistakes today as the Center Party did back then, wrote ULTRAKÆRL. Most conservatives repeatedly underestimate the right-wing extremists. https://t.co/Ol4GS5ZqYx #AfD #Rechtsextremismus #Politik (translated)

The Hutzel reported that seven members of the CDU community association in Boltenhagen had left, including the entire leadership of the local association. The local politicians criticized what they perceived as a softened conservative profile, deviations from election promises, and a detachment of the party leadership from the local grassroots. In the future, they wanted to advocate for the interests of the community at the municipal level without party-political constraints. #CDU #Kommunalpolitik #Politik (translated)

Peter Borbe wrote that the CDU has been shaped by the Left and Greens and, in his view, can no longer become a conservative party. He advised members who joined because of Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, and Helmut Kohl to reconsider their membership. He also claimed that representatives from the left and green spectrum, like Eva Welskop-Deffaa, have taken over the leadership. According to his portrayal, the CDU will govern with socialists and communists while simultaneously treating the bourgeois-conservative camp with disdain. https://t.co/tEcifVNOEn #CDU #Konservativ #Politik (translated)

Martin Ågerup wrote that an analysis commissioned by the City of Copenhagen described how kitchen staff at several nursing homes rejected residents' requests for beef on their birthdays due to the municipality's CO₂ accounts. He used the story of the 95-year-old Niels as an example but emphasized that the person was fictional. According to Ågerup, the municipality's guidelines allowed for a maximum of 80 grams of beef, veal, and lamb per week, including deli meats for lunch. He quoted a resident's statement about a significant longing for decent meat. In April, the Conservative Party, Liberal Alliance, Social Democrats, Venstre, and Danish People’s Party proposed exempting nursing homes from the municipality's food strategy. The Socialist Folk Party, Red–Green Alliance, and the Radical Left rejected the proposal in the Health and Care Committee on August 20, Ågerup wrote. He expected the five parties to be in the minority when the new strategy would be adopted in the City Council at the beginning of 2027. Ågerup argued that politicians should not decide how much meat the elderly should eat, and wrote that nursing home residents should be able to choose their birthday food. He highlighted that, according to him, residents had paid taxes for most of their lives, paid rent for their care homes, and 4,414 kroner per month for food. He concluded with a call for less paternalism and more hamburgers, as well as an invitation to join the Taxpayers Association. https://t.co/5SLqHWljnU #plejehjem #fødselsdag #madpolitik (translated)

Boris Rhein, Hesse's Minister-President, is increasingly positioning himself as a critic of the fire wall within the CDU and could potentially be considered as a successor to Friedrich Merz in the Chancellor's Office or at the top of the CDU due to his conservative orientation and growing self-confidence. #BorisRhein #CDU #Politik (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann recalled that the conservative politician Sir David Amess was stabbed to death on October 15, 2021, during a constituency surgery at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She named the perpetrator as Ali Harbi Ali, a 26-year-old Somali with a British passport. Amess died at the scene; the act is classified as an Islamist terrorist attack. Kussmann wrote that Ali Harbi Ali was later sentenced to life in prison. During the trial, it became known that he had planned further attacks on politicians, including Michael Gove, whom he considered harmful to Muslims. The jury reached their verdict after 18 minutes. When the verdict was announced, Ali refused to stand. Amess is survived by his wife and five children, Kussmann wrote. #Terrorismus #Politik #Gedenktag (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann recalled that the conservative politician Sir David Amess was stabbed on October 15, 2021, during a public meeting in a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. The 26-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, a Somali with a British passport, had repeatedly stabbed Amess; he died at the scene. Kussmann described the act as an Islamist terrorist attack. In the later trial, Ali Harbi Ali was sentenced to life in prison. It became known that he had planned further attacks on politicians, including on Michael Gove, because he was harming Muslims. According to Kussmann, the jurors took 18 minutes to reach their verdict; at the sentencing, Ali refused to stand up. Amess left behind a wife and five children. #Gedenken #Terrorismus #Politik (translated)

GFrei.News reported that the operator of a pharmacy in Bielefeld does not want to serve AfD supporters. The author considered the announced loss of sales to be of little relevance outside the immediate area but estimated it as significant with an AfD voter share of 30 percent and referred to a video that had since been published in which the operator had relativized her statement. As another detail, GFrei.News mentioned a website where businesses could reportedly report losses in sales due to their political stance. The author wrote that the directory was run by a financial advisory for LGBT and mocked its orientation in this context. He described the website as a boycott list for conservatives and stated that he had wanted to develop a boycott app anyway and would use the directory as a first data basis. https://t.co/bTJua2RDly #Bielefeld #AfD #Boykott (translated)

The conservative political advisor Michael D. Cohen sees a possibility for the Republicans to hold the Senate in the midterm elections if Donald Trump does not actively participate in the election campaign, while the Democrats are optimistic about their rising polls. #Midterms #Republikaner #Wahlen (translated)

James Talarico, who is running as a Democratic candidate for a Senate seat in Texas, could change the political landscape of the state by succeeding with moderate and socially left positions despite the conservative dominance, thereby achieving a significant victory for the Democrats. #TexasWahl #JamesTalarico #Demokraten (translated)