
Economics Minister Katherina Reiche has to remove video against the Left Party
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After an urgent application from the Left, the Federal Constitutional Court decided whether members of the government should comply with the neutrality requirement.
Economics Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) has to have an Instagram post deleted that is directed against the Left Party. The Federal Constitutional Court decided this after an urgent application from the Left. The video was published on September 24th on the ministry's official Instagram page under the title "Anti-Semitism and expropriation endanger Germany and the economy."
Reiche spoke of a party “that openly practices anti-Semitism.” The Left had argued that Reiche had disregarded the neutrality requirement for state organs. The minister must now first remove the video.
“The fact that ministers are abusing their political power for such a smear campaign is deeply shabby and raises serious questions about their understanding of office,” Janis Ehling, federal managing director of the Left, told Spiegel. Instead of using her office for a factual political debate, Reiche tried to discredit the left with targeted allegations.
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