Determination of the new Federal President Today, the new president will be confirmed. After the departure of the well at the time designated by Chancellor Merkel, Horst Köhler, she has after that by her own sour-faced policy of a surprise given his office has decided for a new man. Christian Wulff is still prime minister of Lower Saxony. A man who is clear about the parties and from out of this neutrality is one of the best to represent all Germans in this high office. A scandal-free politicians with character strength. His name stands for integration, he has a first Turkish-born Muslim, we let it melt on your tongue, woman, young and non-Christian-named the Minister. And he shows how an agricultural country like Germany Niedersachsen works without agribusiness lobby. With foresight, he has raised the lobby directly to the executive chair of the Agriculture Minister. Ms Grothe is the owner of several poultry farms (commonly known as chicken-KZ), but has also promised to use the organic sector. Sun prophylactic Bioeierhöfe 9 were closed for food contamination (http://tinyurl.com/35gvdgo). They also know and therefore our next President, that the sowing of GM maize for human and animal is completely safe (http://tinyurl.com/37kluz9). With so much trust can we trust, is not it? And one small thing. Mr. Wulff , shortly before he moved to Berlin not just in the Lower Saxony Parliament Parliamentary allowances increased by 7.2%. It is therefore still be fallen far short of the recommendation of an independent commission and must be recognized.
We now come back to today's confirmation. The so-called Federal Assembly, a kind of Althing, which is composed of the members of parliament, regional representatives and ambassadors from various units now give the okay for today, Mrs Merkel their personal choice. The so-called electoral college will decide in a democratic majority in the Lord Wulff. Good to know that the CSU is a man behind the candidate and no dissenters in Bavaria will be. An important signal is the virtually certain, and not democratically elected Horst Seehofer, the Lower Saxony from Munich on the road.
If we know now already, as starting the whole theater, why does this ominous Federal Assembly are still together? Because it must justify the decision of the Chancellor democratic. Only the Federal Parliament may approve, the pick of Ms Merkel to be the highest in the Federal Republic to be assigned duties on behalf of the people.
And now, I slipped out a word which has nothing to do here: the people. Greek demos. This occurs, for people at all any more. Every four years we spin the politicians and parties fully on all cylinders, but millions investing in ridiculous campaigns and be elected to a snapshot of. Scandals are covered up (tank truck bombing, etc.), deferred unpleasant decisions (health insurance premium increase, etc.) and applied the make-centimeter thick. 15% of the seats were the last time the tax cut party FDP. Just the hotel tax was lowered to the reduced rate of 7% tax rate and now the party is after the last polls in nurmehr 4% of voters in favor. The CDU / CSU came to just under 35%, but you have a 3% excess mandates in her lap and then it has served for the majority. Today would be 32% of Black voters tick.
Let's go one step further and consider the politics of low turnout of only 72.2% due, then by "majority" be no more talk.
And so can draw several parallels today.
first China. In the People's Republic, the highest positions are awarded to deserving party members. The consensus of a small caste leadership is sufficient.
second The chancellor election of 1933, in which the winning candidate had no means the majority of Germans behind him. So the man was set from above.
third Iran, where in our view, moderate and more conciliatory candidate Rezai had no chance to win the seat.
4. Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe cares a damn about the concerns of his people. In the snapshot of his re-election, he allowed himself to be at the head of the country confirm.
5th Greece. The money aristocracy and the political caste is doing very well. The people are protesting as anarchic, anti-democratic and anti-European dismissed.
etc., etc.
Today we have reached the bottom. The country moves on talent show, Peter Zwegat and Attention control level. On all fours, the country washed by the crisis. Anything that can be done is somehow wrong and come back pats on the shoulders. Since I commend
China, Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia and several others at first glance little democratic Events. The bottom line is, unfortunately, but that the political leadership of these countries is contrary to the oligarchs to Mrs Merkel is no mortgage on the life, education and prospects for the next 5 generations. The population is not placed on the next 100 years in the cast of decision constraints.
Now would not the political situation in each of these countries for the Federal Republic. The comparison, however, remains a moral: When do we have a democracy, we must also live active and exercise. And as the Federal Republic of Germany, we should we take out an example for the world to try. Organizationally and technologically is it possible to enter politics, but not Parteienfilz, interested citizens in all key decisions to one vote. And even if we feel 72.2% turnout in the general election in 2009 as a low, it is still the overwhelming majority of voters who have found their way to the polls. The vast majority are ready to cooperate in the choices of our country. We are the people and we want to choose our President directly. We want to choose our chancellor directly and we want to be involved in all important decisions: Social policy, family policy, education policy, foreign aid, the armed forces abroad, energy policy, debt crisis and all others. The vote on the smoking ban is the least of einzufordernde decision. We, the people do make choices. We are being lied to every 4 years again? No matter, because we can directly co-decide. In referendums we can bring our policy on track. When is it finally? (Http://tinyurl.com/2vxqxtk)
The program of the Goethe-Institut at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 
