By Countenance
Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 10:51:00 A.M. EST
[Re: “German AfD Vows to Take Merkel to COURT over “abuse of office.”]
As you can probably guess, I’ve been following this whole saga down to almost the letter-by-letter.
The case here against Merkel involves “Nötigung” (coercion), specifically, in that she is no longer the leader of the CDU, that was AKK until a few days ago, yet another domino that fell because of this Thuringia nontroversy. Anyway, since Merkel isn’t actually leading a political party, the coercion complaint here is that she has no authority to boss CDU elected officials around, which she did in telling CDUers in the Thuringian Landtag to walk it back on their support for Emmerich.
The reasons why I think this complaint will fall short:
(1) Merkel is still Chancellor, and that will probably count for something; and
(2) By the time Merkel put her two cents in, and she did it while in South Africa, the outrage machine over the nontroversy had already been in high gear for at least a day. So her contribution was too late to matter, in my assessment.
N.S.: Always great to hear from you, brother, especially given how sunny your life has been for a while, now.
I can’t believe it could be possible for someone in the parliamentary system to be head of state, without being head of party. I’m going to have to ask Carlos Beltran, if he thinks that’s kosher.
[See also: “Is the Final Solution to the German Question at Hand?”]
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"Abuse of office". Sounds like the Germans been listening to the impeachment process aimed at Don.
Turns out that getting married, or getting ready for that, does not magically relieve you of life, work and professional responsibilities.
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