Wednesday, February 12, 2020

German AfD Vows to Take Merkel to COURT over "abuse of office"



By R.C.
Wed, Feb 12, 2020 4:39 p.m.

"German AfD Vows to Take Merkel to COURT over 'abuse of office.'"






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countenance said...

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

(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.

Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 10:51:00 AM EST

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