The Commissioner for the new Länder to promote the specific interests of the East Germans. According to the SPD, the CDU does this-politicians are not the shepherd but. There is a barrage of insults.

mad Carsten Schneider, the Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. He calls the Christian shepherd, the Ostbeauftragten of the Federal government, a “Breakfast Director” and “political failure” and says: “The East deserved Better.”

SPD politician Schneider was born in 1976 in Thuringia, Germany. He criticised, and not the shepherd is to represent the interests of the East German appropriate, act only as a CDU party politician and attempts to organize across party lines, a strong Lobby for the East.

Schneider accuses the Ostbeauftragten in addition, he understand the problems of the people in the East German länder. As examples, he cites Hirtes positions for a complete abolition of the solidarity surcharge and the basic pension plans of the SPD.

The conclusion of cutter: shepherd have harmed the office and the interests of the East Germans.

SPD politician, Schneider speaks of a “political failure” and a “Breakfast Director”.

addressee of the criticism is Christian shepherd, Commissioner for the new länder.

shepherd against a quota scheme

On the weekend, had spoken shepherd, also born in 1976 in Thuringia, against a quota system for the more East Germans in leadership positions. Such a quota could not work. The result could then also demand individual provinces a quota of its own, said the CDU-politician in the RBB. He did not see any “disadvantage of being from the new Federal States”.

The Federal government did not want to engage in criticism of a shepherd. “Such Statements from the political space, especially since they are so unqualified, not I,” said the spokesperson of the Ministry of economy. Shepherd is assigned to the Ministry. You can’t understand the criticism of the content.

SPD does not want to work with shepherd, together

Schneider is not as far to demand open Hirtes resignation, but says: The man have done so much wrong, that he wondered whether we should not abolish the office.

SPD politician announced, in fact, the cooperation with a shepherd. It would serve no purpose to deal further with him and to invest political power and time.

The SPD will represent the interests of the East Germans in the future independently. The social Democrats see shepherd long been critical: most Recently, he had raised it against himself when he criticized the welfare state, the plans of the SPD as an example for their “Larmoyanz” and said that the false Image of the “jammer ossis confirmed”.

new Ostbeauftragter of the government, 12.03.2018 |mdr Atlas |Germany |Berlin

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