Racist Scholz outburst? SPD Chancellor apparently insults CDU politician - "Resignation"

Moin.de Racist Scholz outburst? SPD Chancellor apparently insults CDU politician - "Resignation" Alexander Riechelmann • 3 hours • 2 minutes reading time Shortly before the federal election, Olaf Scholz apparently made an outburst towards a well-known CDU MP. As "Focus Online" reports, the SPD Chancellor insulted the black politician Joe Chialo as the "court jester" of the Union. This has now led to calls for Scholz to resign. According to "FOCUS", Olaf Scholz insulted the CDU MP Joe Chialo. Scholz insults CDU politician During a birthday reception, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have called the Berlin Senator for Culture Joe Chialo a "court jester of the CDU". This was reported by "Focus" editor-in-chief Georg Meck on the portal. Chialo is a well-known face in the party and even a member of the CDU federal executive board. Chialo confirmed Scholz's slip-up to the CDU leadership, as "Bild" reports. Criticism of Scholz is now coming particularly from the CDU. NRW MP Bodo Löttgen is even calling on the SPD candidate for chancellor to pull the ripcord in the election campaign. He writes about the case on Platform X: "Precisely because he is chancellor and in the election campaign, there is no other way than immediate resignation. Someone with these character deficits can neither be chancellor nor apply for chancellor again!" Demand for resignation from SPD chancellor In this context, deputy federal chairwoman Karin Prien refers to the then Union candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet, who lost many votes in the 2021 federal election because of his laughter during the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley. The politician also wrote on the platform: "Armin Laschet was executed in the media for an inappropriate laugh. For the Chancellor, that must have been it with this racist remark towards Joe Chialo." Scholz has now responded to the accusation, writing on X: "The term I used does not have racist connotations in everyday language and was never intended by me to be so. The accusation of racism raised is absurd and artificially constructed (...)," said the SPD candidate for chancellor.