TV criticism Maischberger: SPD and Union already in a bad mood than the traffic lights?

It was just a few hours ago that the Bundestag had come together for the first constituent session after the elections. Gregor Gysi (Die Linke) had given the opening speech as the elementary president and warned the gender equality, also because the proportion of women in the new Bundestag had decreased. Julia Klöckner from the CDU was elected with an absolute majority in the first ballot as President of the Bundestag and had promised to work for a “civilized cooperation”. And in her studio, Sandra Maischberger opened her Tuesday evening with a quote from Klöckner: “If you take freedom of expression and diversity of expression seriously, you have to endure other perspectives to endure it. Not every view that I do not share is the same as extremism.” The AfD also applauded that the moderator said. And turned to your guests: is that a good sign?

“Well,” said the journalist and author Petra Gerster, not without reason that Klöckner said that her nomination was controversial because she also wanted to imagine the AfD, which was criticized by the Greens, who saw it. But she thinks Julia Klöckner is a resolute, experienced politician, according to Gerster, who will also be able to deal with unflasty interjections of the AfD. In any case, she can prove this in the next four years. Klöckner's words are the right announcement for this legislature, nice, if all of them take a say, the journalist Friedrich Küppersbusch found the party colleagues from the CDU, by the way.

How are the negotiations between the parties, which election promises have already been broken, which coalition awaits us? These were the questions that Maischberger put up for discussion in her program and pointed out that the Greens boss Franziska Brantner had expressed that she was worried that the SPD and CDU/CSU were already in a worse mood than the traffic lights in its worst times. Does she have a point? Angelika Hellemann, editor in the “Bild” political department, was of the opinion that they did not get well together because far too much internal was going out of the negotiations. “Among other things, to her editorial team!” Maischberger hissed in between for the great amusement of Küppersbusch. At that time, however, nothing got out of the traffic light negotiations, Hellemann continued. Because at the traffic lights you wanted to build trust first, the yardstick was for it: something is pierced or not. Now even negotiations in working groups would be made known.

That sounded almost mixed with traffic light romance, of all things from the “picture”. A famous selfie like that of 2021, on which Annalena Baerbock, Robert Habeck, Christian Lindner and Volker Wissing posed and the departure, would certainly not exist in this mood, said Petra Gerster. In fact, in the current situation, every coalition negotiation selfie would only be perceived as an ironic reference to the iconic traffic light photo. But who knows what's going on.

Has Merz deliberately deceived his voters? With this question, Maischberger actually alluded to the debt brake. However, when Angelika Hellemann immediately took this as an opportunity to raise the migration topic, the moderator showed a sympathetically impatient manner in view of the stereotypes discussed before the election in numerous programs. “I don't think a society can withstand it when people who want to find refuge here, and we say we say we can't learn anything from it,” said the “Bild” editor. Küppersbusch then: “Do you think there are media that have participated in building this pressure?” Gerster: “With several attacks, it was shown that one was mentally ill, the other one opponent, it is not that simple.” Maischberger then simply reduced the whole thing with a change of topic and, because she could, briedens a completely different question: “Does Friedrich Merz have a women's problem?”

The talk show had returned to what Gysi had addressed in his opening speech, gender justice and parity in the Bundestag. Shortly after the election, a photo that showed the CDU/CSU leadership was circulating on social media at a meeting. The moderator showed it again and referred to that statement by Friedrich Merz, who had said during the campaign that former Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht was a misconception. You don't want to repeat that, “we do not do the women with it”. Ms. Lambrecht was actually not a good minister of defense, said Hellemann. “But what Friedrich Merz said was pure chauvinism. Surprise! There was a bad minister of defense, I can think of a few ministers who did not do their position so well, for example!”

The “we” was incredible in the wording, added Petra Gerster: “We are power – the other are women” – a sentence from the 1950s. The fact that the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst (CDU), whom Maischberger also invited to her show on Tuesday evening, also pointed out several times that there was parity in his cabinet, less than wink with the fence post than with the whole fence.

“Apply different standards for women if they grab what you do?” Asked the moderators, alluding to the ambitions of the still Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the post of President of the UN General Assembly. She had recently been heavily criticized for this, also because the diplomat Helga Schmid had been in discussion for this office. Christoph Heusgen, former chairman of the Munich Security Conference, had described it as “an insolence”, “replacing the best and most internationally experienced German diplomat with an exhaust model”. Which in turn found Petra Gerster “an insolence”. You shouldn't pretend that Baerbock has secured a million heavy supervisory board mandate. It was a job for a year for which she could take her family with them.

“As a woman, I want to say,” Friedrich Küppersbusch grown in between that when men such intrigue spiders, it often means: “Hey, boys, that stinks to male piss, that's really indispensable what you do there.” That is why he was not immediately ready when women played such an intrigue – and it was an intrigue – to “perfume” it as a female empowerment. It was not a fine train, but the key question was the question of qualification. And Ms. Baerbock had described the Chinese president as a dictator who infiltrated Brics countries as Russian and referred to Russia as the final boss, who should be economically ruined for decades. “Now many will look forward to you in New York.”

Hellemann found that you had to see that you had to look at the outrageous expression of the insolence: Christoph Heusgen was Angela Merkel's foreign policy consultant, who then had a great job with the UN from Merkel, and his wife also got a job from the UN. In the end, he became head of the security conference.

In the end, two other guests came into the show: Boris Bondarew, former diplomat in the service of Russia, who – asked about the so -called peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, once again pointed out that you should look better at what is going on in Ukraine: “Then we see that Russia bombs Ukraine further.” Russia is not interested in an armistice at all, especially not unconditionally, said Bondarew. The question is: If Germany is attacked, would other NATO members come to help? “You will see, there are doubts and these doubts are available in any other NATO country.” Putin has already achieved that, he wanted to do NATO obsolete, every country in Europe would be on its own in this way. We would then have to deal with an atomic armed Russia and would have to do everything Putin concerns us.

And – almost as a comedian – the entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer recently appeared. He said that he was often flying to the USA, his child visits, has an office there, his wife, the actress Veronica Ferres, was also very often in the film metropolis of Los Angeles. He said, “Musk hates the state, he wants to abolish the state. He strives for a kind of world domination, daunting.” Whereupon Maischberger threw that he can no longer travel to America after such statements. However, he still had a career in politics – which Maschmeyer wanted to repay. He was invested in 150 startups when he has a responsibility. “How would Germany be a startup?” Asked Maischberger ironically. That doesn't fit his life planning. “I think I prefer to give tips, asked – or without being asked on social media.”