![]() ![]() It was roundly condemned by CDU supporters, one of whom, Philipp Graefe, tweeted: “This young man is spreading an endless stream of fake news and is populist down to the tips of his blue hair.” Writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Fridtjof Küchemann said across Germany the video had had the unusual effect of opening the bedroom doors of many teenagers who had emerged from their computers to deliver “urgent recommendations to their parents ahead of the upcoming European elections”, for which the parents should be grateful, he added. It is being heatedly commented on by media and political analysts on social media. Released on Saturday afternoon, the video had received close to 3.4m views by Wednesday. But he explicitly warned against voting for the rightwing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), claiming they would “only make the world worse”. He said the Greens and leftwing Die Linke were parties that possibly did deserve support, but even they had “a long way to go”. He said even though EU politics was “fucking boring”, Germans should participate on Sunday, when the country will vote in the EU parliamentary elections, because the outcome of the vote would have a knock-on effect on the parties’ national standing. Towards the end of his tirade, he addressed politicians, saying: “You always say that young people should be political, in which case you have to get to grips with it when they think your politics are shit.” ![]() Rezo then delivered a passionate lecture with statistics and video inserts focused mainly on climate change but also lack of equal opportunities, foreign and security policy and the recent EU copyright row. The alliance, he said, had created an ever deeper divide between the super-rich and the majority of Germans with “the 45 richest households in Germany owning so much as the poorest 50%”. ![]()
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