No other party is using the social networks as intensively as the AfD, as Gunnar Lindemann makes no exception. If you want to know which of Wuppertal and in Marzahn-Hellersdorf is concerned in the house of representatives elected politicians up to date, follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
But beware: Many of the cost of the content, can read only, who speaks Russian. Lindemann is not one, on the subject of Ukraine, he is for the Russian media is still one of the preferred conversation partner. That Lindemann himself is not able to read the shared entries – it was a gift.
his strong political interest for the Eastern European region is Hindered now from a completely different place: By the decision of last Tuesday, the “National security and defense Council of Ukraine informed” that Lindemann for the duration of three years is prohibited from entering Ukraine – as the Left-politician Andreas Maurer.
Lindemann, President Poroshenko announced a “war criminal”
it is argued that Lindemann had visited as a so-called election observers, the internationally unrecognized “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk. Both regions are competitive forces since the outbreak of the clashes in order to Russia’s annexed Crimean Peninsula between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government. On the Homepage of the Federal foreign office it is said therefore: “Prior to traveling to the not from the Ukrainian government-controlled areas of the Donetsk state administration districts and Luhansk will be warned.”
Lindemann, who had linked to our own information long before the start of his political career, close ties in the Donbass Region, of which can be exactly how from the official travel warning for the Peninsula of Crimea – not to be put off. He represents in the for 2014-smoldering conflict with the maximum geopolitical charging a clear position: “The population of Crimea has chosen Russia, she is Russian.”
Petro Poroshenko, in the same year, to the President of Ukraine elected billionaire and oligarch, he calls a “war criminal”. From its proximity to Russia, and the Act of Vladimir Putin’s Lindemann makes no secret, and probably, therefore, he has to one of the Landtag deputies, rather unusually short wire to Russian media, such as “Sputnik”, or “Russia Today”.
criticism from the ranks of the AfD
“The reports says least what I have,” said Lindemann. In contrast to the media in Germany, the – hung exactly as the Federal government – the “coat-tails of the United States,” he says. The interest of Russian media in his Person could also have something to do with the content of his statements, has not commented on the Lindemann – he smiles dear.
Within his own group, from whose ranks had travelled in the past members on the Crimea, causing the statements and the external political Engagement of Lindemann’s criticism. Indeed, wanted to – with regard to the hard-to calibrate the Balance in the group and the party – no one from the leadership comment with the name of the procedure used Linde man.
Behind closed doors, however, is clearly spoken text. “It is striking that he is positioned in a very one-sided. This positioning is nonsense and not part of our line,“ says one from the group of tip. Internally, was Lindemann’s criticism of the procedure again and again been expressed. Because this is close to the far-right Association “The wings” and an open conflict within the national Association will not be risked, it remained so far. Georg Pazderski, chief of the group and Association and a critic of the wing, did not want to comment on the travel ban against one of his deputies.
Linde’s next trips are already booked
Lindemann himself went on the Offensive. “For me, this approach is exemplary for the self-understanding of the Ukrainian government. German and European tax money that is taken in the Ukraine like always, but critical mandate-holders, like me, you denied to the entry,“ said Lindemann. He had the suspicion that to do the entry barrier with the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine. “I don’t want to share, and may result in the suspension of the US-of-hearing governments in the West,” he says.
The 48-Year-old, in his commitment to the people on the ground brakes. The next trips in the Region are already booked, school books for a German-speaking school in Luhansk ordered, finally, Lindemann combines acts of his travels in the Region, always with social well-being. Facebook photos show the politicians surrounded by children in classrooms or in orphanages – most recently, he brought Kilos of chocolate with in the often impoverished areas.
Every member of a cost lump sum of monthly 1000 Euro
is funded As Lindemann the travel, however, remains his secret. In a last Wednesday, guided conversation, he said with a grin, “officially” have it in his last, at the end of February made travel in the Donbass, to holiday traded.
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Since he has to stay during the trip, official appointments, and these – via Facebook – also many Russian-speaking voters of his constituency had, doubts. With a view to each member with its own constituency office is entitled to costs in a lump sum, monthly 1000 Euro Lindemann said: “we have the but. Otherwise, it is often claimed, we would be stuck in his own pocket.“
