Left Party MP expelled from German parliament over Palestine t-shirt
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Bundestag president Julia Klöckner explained that political statements expressed through clothing are not allowed, before asking Köktürk to leave. #EuropeNews

Left Party MP Cansin Köktürk was thrown out of a German parliament plenary chamber on Wednesday for wearing a t-shirt with the word “Palestine” printed on it, a move deemed a political statement by the parliamentary leadership.

Bundestag President Julia Klöckner intervened during the session, reminding MPs that political messages on clothing are not permitted in the chamber.

While the Bundestag does not have a detailed dress code, its rules require MPs and visitors to dress “in keeping with the prestige” of the institution. Enforcement of this standard is left to the discretion of the session chair.

  • Matombo@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I repeat myself again: If you pull up a German flag: Yes, because there simply is no culture around the german flag outside of sport events, government buildings and far right contexts.

    If you pull up a gay pride flag that would be an unusual way to display (normaly they are just fixed to windows), but that I would let that fly 8pun not intended) as not being far right.

    • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Well I guess we won’t agree.

      If you don’t want to pull up a German flag in front of your house or wherever, that’s totally fine with me and I can understand why you wouldn’t want to.

      But to universally apply a label to whoever does something you don’t want to and especially this label (far right) is sweeping judgement and simplifying the world into black and white. And I think we don’t need any more of that today.

      But that’s just my opinion.

      • Matombo@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Note that I said far right not extrem right, i deliberatly left a graytone in there.

        Also I didn’t made that culture of mainly far right using the German flag, I’m just stating a fact. If you want you can try to establish a centrist or left wing german-flag-culture. I wouldn’t be mad if you succed.