The conservative selection of the German Minister of Agriculture withdrew his candidacy after animal rights activists stormed his farm, prompting the party’s condemnation.
Gonther Felner, a member of the agricultural pressure groups who won the support of the Conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), said his wife “for fear of life and the parties” when the activists went up to the cattle shed that she was to hang out a banner and form light smoke on Monday.
Fenner said he would withdraw his candidacy as a result of the protest, which the politicians criticized as hostile to democracy. The Bavarian conservative leader Marcus Soder described it as a “attack on rural life” and demanded a special investigation.
CEM özdemir, Acting Minister of Agriculture in the government, was published from the Greens, on x: “intimidation and threats have no place in our democracy. Not against Günther Felßner and his family, nor against anyone else.”
In reference to the farmers’ protests that occurred in Germany last year, özdemir said: “This applies to everyone, and this applies in the same way to the gallows, the blockade of phrases, and all other attacks.”
Radical protests have become a polarization force in Germany, with political tolerance with sabotage measures – such as climate activists who hunt themselves into corridors and farmers who prevent streets with tractors – often depend on the group that transports them.
The discounts in the outgoing coalition caused surgical diesel subsidies in angry protests in 2024, which included scenes from the temporary gallows.
In January 2024, the mobs were trapped by the Green Economy Minister, Robert Habik, in a phrase with his wife when they were returning home from a holiday. Ricarda Lang, the party’s co -leader at the time, was stopped from leaving a meeting party the next month by farmers who lit the fires and banned roads with tractors.
On Wednesday, Joachim Roccid, president of the Association of German farmers, who previously described the siege of the ferries as “lack of”, said on Wednesday that he was surprised to protest at the Felner and strongly regret his candidacy.
He said, “Such criminal procedures are crimes and have no relationship of marine expression or legitimate protest,” he said. “We should not allow these radical activists to increase the toxic democratic discourse.”
He added that he believed that activists should not be allowed to bring the collective lawsuit also.
The Middle Police said that they were investigating 13 people on suspicion of encroaching on the property of others, two who understood the surface and lit up.
The animal rebellion, who commented the sign that read “There is no exploiter of animals as minister of agriculture”, defended its protest as peaceful and suggested that Felzenr was using it as an excuse to quit smoking because his candidacy was unpopular. Online seam to prevent him from becoming a minister of 400,000 signatures.
Felßner was fined by a court in 2018 to empty waste on the property of its neighbor, which pollution of water and soil. The experts also disturbed the audience’s invitation to “eating meat for climate.” Animal agriculture is responsible for 12-20 % of greenhouse gas pollutants that exacerbate the harsh weather, and climate scientists have found that eating meat is less vital to preventing the planet from heating.
An animal rebellion activist said in a statement, “Agricultural pressure groups, the criminal convict and the convicted sciences are not a suitable candidate for the Ministry of Agriculture,” an animal rebellion activist said in a statement.